Highly retentive core domains in K-feldspar and their implications for 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology illustrated by determining the cooling curve for the Capoas Granite, Palawan, The Philippines
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2015
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Forster, Margaret
Armstrong, Richard
Kohn, B P
Lister, Gordon
Cottam, Michael
Suggate, Simon M.
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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K-feldspar from the late Miocene Capoas Granite on Palawan in The Philippines appears to contain highly retentive diffusion domains that are closed to argon diffusion at near-solidus temperatures during cooling of this »7 km-diameter pluton. This is an important result, for K-feldspar is commonly considered not retentive in terms of its ability to retain argon. Closure temperatures for argon diffusion in K-feldspars are routinely claimed to be in the range »150400C but the release of 39Ar from irradiated K-feldspar during furnace step-heating experiments in vacuo yields Arrhenius data that imply the existence of highly retentive core domains, with inferred closure temperatures that can exceed »500700C. These high closure temperatures from the Capoas Granite K-feldspar are consistent with the coincidence of 40Ar/39Ar
ages with UPb zircon ages at ca 13.5 § 0.2 Ma. The cooling rate then accelerated, but the rate of change had considerably slowed by ca 12 Ma. Low-temperature (UTh)/He thermochronology shows that the cooling rate once again accelerated at ca 11 Ma, perhaps owing to renewed tectonic activity.
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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
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