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GEOSTANDARDS AND GEOANALYTICAL RESEARCH
卷 40, 期 4, 页码 517-532出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/ggr.12118
关键词
geochronology; K-Ar; laser ablation; laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy; mass spectrometry; in situ analysis
资金
- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- CNRS
We present a breadboard prototype to perform in situ dating applicable to planetary exploration. Based on the K-Ar dating method and using instruments inspired by flight-proven analytical components, 'KArMars' ablated a geological sample under high vacuum with a quadrupled ultraviolet (UV at 266 nm) Nd:YAG laser. During ablation, the K content of the target material was given by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and the released Ar-40 was measured with a quadrupole mass spectrometer. Because K was measured as a concentration and Ar-40 as a count of atoms, these values were converted using the ablated mass given by the product of the density and the ablated volume. The uncertainties of the age measurement were < 15%. The quality of the K-Ar measurements was enhanced by the advantages of UV laser ablation such as the minimisation of thermal effects on argon diffusion. This work demonstrates that a specialised instrument inspired by this set-up could provide in situ absolute geochronology with sufficient precision for scientific investigations, particularly where the crater density counting provides higher uncertainties on Mars.
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