scholarly journals Age and Origin of the Mesoproterozoic Iron Oxide-Apatite Mineralization, Cheever Mine, Eastern Adirondacks, NY

Geosciences ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Chiarenzelli ◽  
Marian Lupulescu ◽  
Sean Regan ◽  
Jared Singer
Keyword(s):  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Host Rock ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Country Rock ◽  
Oscillatory Zoning ◽  
Magmatic Differentiation ◽  
Grenville Province ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Granite Suite

At the Cheever Mine, located in the eastern Adirondack Mountains of the Mesoproterozoic Grenville Province, iron oxide-apatite ore forms a narrow (<3 m) sheet cross-cutting metasomatically altered, magnetite-bearing, albite-rich leucogranitic host rocks of the Lyon Mountain Granite suite. Zircon from the ore and five samples of country rock were dated by Laser Ablation-Multi-Collector-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. The ore yielded a Concordia age of 1033.6 ± 2.9 Ma while three samples of host rock yielded ages of 1036.3 ± 2.9, 1040 ± 11, and 1043.9 ± 4.1 Ma. Two additional samples of host rock yielded older ages of 1059.6 ± 3.4 and 1066.0 ± 6.3 Ma and contain zircon xenocrystic cores with 207Pb/206Pb ages up to 1242 Ma. The zircons analyzed, including those separated from the ore, have characteristics typically associated with an igneous origin including size, shape, inclusions, oscillatory zoning, typical chondrite-normalized REE patterns, U contents, and U/Th ratios. This data establishes the age of the ore and alteration and a temporal, and likely genetic, connection between the ore and members of the Lyon Mountain Granite suite. A model invoking melting of Shawinigan country rocks, magmatic differentiation, and long-lived magmatic and metasomatic input along extensional fault conduits is proposed for the ore’s genesis. At the Cheever Mine, magmatic hydrothermal fluids and/or post-intrusion alteration appears not to have had a major impact on zircon, which preserves original U-Pb systematics.

Ferrozine Assay for Simple and Cheap Iron Analysis of Silica-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hattie Ring ◽  
Zhe Gao ◽  
Nathan D. Klein ◽  
Michael Garwood ◽  
John C. Bischof ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Iron Oxide Nanoparticles ◽  
Hydrofluoric Acid ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Silica Shell ◽  
Oxide Nanoparticles ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Digestion Process ◽  
Plasma Methods ◽  
Iron Analysis

The Ferrozinen assay is applied as an accurate and rapid method to quantify the iron content of iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) and can be used in biological matrices. The addition of ascorbic aqcid accelerates the digestion process and can penetrate an IONP core within a mesoporous and solid silica shell. This new digestion protocol avoids the need for hydrofluoric acid to digest the surrounding silica shell and provides and accessible alternative to inductively coupled plasma methods. With the updated digestion protocol, the quantitative range of the Ferrozine assay is 1 - 14 ppm. <br>

Ferrozine Assay for Simple and Cheap Iron Analysis of Silica-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hattie Ring ◽  
Zhe Gao ◽  
Nathan D. Klein ◽  
Michael Garwood ◽  
John C. Bischof ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Iron Oxide Nanoparticles ◽  
Hydrofluoric Acid ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Silica Shell ◽  
Oxide Nanoparticles ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Digestion Process ◽  
Plasma Methods ◽  
Iron Analysis

The Ferrozinen assay is applied as an accurate and rapid method to quantify the iron content of iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) and can be used in biological matrices. The addition of ascorbic aqcid accelerates the digestion process and can penetrate an IONP core within a mesoporous and solid silica shell. This new digestion protocol avoids the need for hydrofluoric acid to digest the surrounding silica shell and provides and accessible alternative to inductively coupled plasma methods. With the updated digestion protocol, the quantitative range of the Ferrozine assay is 1 - 14 ppm. <br>

scholarly journals New detrital zircon U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf isotopic data from metasedimentary rocks along the western boundary of the composite Avalon terrane in the southeastern New England Appalachians

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison R. Severson ◽  
Yvette D. Kuiper ◽  
G. Nelson Eby ◽  
Hao-Yang Lee ◽  
J. Christopher Hepburn
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Depositional Age ◽  
T Values

ABSTRACT West Avalonia is a composite terrane that rifted from the supercontinent Gondwana in the Ordovician and accreted to Laurentia during the latest Silurian to Devonian Acadian orogeny. The nature and extent of West Avalonia are well constrained in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland, Canada, by U-Pb detrital zircon data and/ or isotope geochemistry of (meta)sedimentary and igneous rocks. The southeastern New England Avalon terrane in eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island has generally been interpreted as an along-strike continuance of West Avalonia in Canada, but the ages and origins of metasedimentary units along the western boundary of the Avalon terrane in Massachusetts and Connecticut remain poorly constrained. In this study, new detrital zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf laser-ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) data from three samples of metasedimentary units along the western boundary of the southeastern New England Avalon terrane in Connecticut and Massachusetts were compared with existing data to test whether these metasedimentary units can be correlated along strike. The data were also compared with existing detrital zircon U-Pb and εHf data in New England and Canada in order to constrain the extent and provenance of West Avalonia. The maximum depositional age of two of the three detrital zircon samples analyzed in this study, based on the youngest single grain in each sample (600 ± 28 Ma, n = 1; 617 ± 28 Ma, n = 1) and consistency with existing analyses elsewhere in the southeastern New England Avalon terrane, is Ediacaran, while that of the third sample is Tonian (959 ± 40 Ma, n = 4). Detrital zircon analyses of all three samples from this study showed similar substantial Mesoproterozoic and lesser Paleoproterozoic and Archean populations. Other existing detrital zircon U-Pb data from quartzites in the southeastern New England Avalon terrane show similar Tonian populations with or without Ediacaran grains or populations. Most published detrital zircon U-Pb data from (meta)sedimentary rocks in West Avalonia in Canada yielded Ediacaran youngest detrital zircon age populations, except for a quartzite unit within the Gamble Brook Formation in the Cobequid Highlands of Nova Scotia, which showed a Tonian maximum depositional age, and otherwise a nearly identical detrital zircon signature with rocks from the southeastern New England Avalon terrane. All samples compiled from the southeastern New England Avalon terrane and West Avalonia in Canada show main age populations between ca. 2.0 Ga and ca. 1.0 Ga, with major peaks at ca. 1.95, ca. 1.50, ca. 1.20, and ca. 1.00 Ga, and minor ca. 3.1–3.0 Ga and ca. 2.8–2.6 Ga populations. The εHf(t) values from the three samples yielded similar results to those from West Avalonia in Canada, suggesting that both regions were derived from the same cratonic sources. The εHf(t) values of all West Avalonian samples overlap with both Amazonia and Baltica, suggesting that there is a mixed signature between cratonic sources, possibly as a result of previous collision and transfer of basement fragments between these cratons during the formation of supercontinent Rodinia, or during subsequent arc collisions.

The study of in vivo acute effect of two different delivery modalities of iron oxide core with titanium dioxide shell nanoparticles in rabbits liver tumor.

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e22204-e22204
Author(s):  
Tamer Refaat ◽  
Derek West ◽  
Samar Elachy ◽  
Vamsi Parimi ◽  
Jasmine May ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Titanium Dioxide ◽  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Liver Tumors ◽  
Acute Effect ◽  
Shell Nanoparticles ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Iron Oxide Core

e22204 Background: To compare intravenous (IV) versus fluoroscopy-guided transarterial intra-catheter (IC) delivery of iron oxide core with titanium dioxide shell nanoparticles (NPs) in vivo in VX2 model of liver cancer in rabbits and detect the NPs distribution and effect of NPs presence on the target tumor and other rabbit’s organs. Methods: After obtaining the IACUC approval, liver tumors were obtained by implantation of tumor tissue obtained from a hind limb VX2 tumor of donor rabbits. NPs were delivered either IV or IC. After rabbit termination, 2 hours post NPs injection, tumor, liver, kidney, lung and spleen were harvested, split in half and a part of it was frozen while the remainder was formalin fixed and paraffin embedded. To assess the NPs distribution in 2D we stained 5um thick paraffin tissue sections using Dopamine-Biotin-DHS histochemical (HC) staining followed by Nanozoomer microscopy analysis. H and E staining, TUNEL assay and Ki67 immunohistochemistry were also done. X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (XFM) was used to quantify the NPs. Frozen tissue was used for bulk NPs concentration analysis using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). Results: This study included ten rabbits; 3 rabbits had IV NPs injections, 3 had IC NPs injection, 2 control and 2 donors. ICP-MS analysis showed statistically significant higher NPs concentration in tumors of IC arm vs. IV arm (p= 0.0356), while there was higher concentration of NPs in liver (p=0.00077) and spleen (p = 0.01356) of IV vs. IC arms but no difference in kidneys or lungs. These findings were consistent with results from HC and XFM analyses. HC 2D analysis of NPs distribution showed that the RES have taken up the NPs non-specifically. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment groups regarding the Ki67 proliferation or the TUNEL apoptosis indices or when control rabbits were compared to NPs treated rabbits. Conclusions: Both IV and IC NPs injection are feasible modalities for delivering NPs to tumors with acceptable acute systemic effects and comparable tumor effect. IV delivery increased sequestration of the NPs by RES and their accumulation in spleen and liver.

scholarly journals Petrography and Geochemistry of the Banded Iron Formation of the Gangfelum Area, Northeastern Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Anthony Temidayo Bolarinwa
Keyword(s):  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Icp Oes ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Basement Complex ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Iron Precipitation ◽  
Icp Ms

The Gangfelum Banded Iron Formation (BIF) is located within the basement complex of northeastern Nigeria. It is characterized by alternate bands of iron oxide and quartz. Petrographic studies show that the BIF consist mainly of hematite, goethite subordinate magnetite and accessory minerals including rutile, apatite, tourmaline and zircon. Chemical data from inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) show that average Fe2O3(t) is 53.91 wt.%. The average values of Al2O3 and CaO are 1.41 and 0.05 wt.% respectively, TiO2 and MnO are less than 0.5 wt. % each. The data suggested that the BIF is the oxide facies type. Trace element concentrations of Ba (67-332 ppm), Ni (28-35 ppm), Sr (13-55 ppm) and Zr (16-25 ppm) in the Gangfelum BIF are low and similar to the Maru and Muro BIF in northern Nigeria and also the Algoma iron formation from North America, the Orissa iron oxide facies of India and the Itabirite from Minas Gerais in Brazil. The evolution of the Gangfelum BIF involved metamorphism of chemically precipitated or rhythmically deposited iron-rich sediments into hematite-quartz rocks. The banding of the BIF suggested a break in iron precipitation probably due to iron oxide deficiency. 

scholarly journals Biologically–induced elemental variations in Antarctic sandstones: a potential test for Martian micro-organisms

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Blackhurst ◽  
Kym Jarvis ◽  
Monica M. Grady
Keyword(s):  
Host Rock ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Pore Space ◽  
Atomic Emission ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Dry Valleys ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Trace Element Study ◽  
Micro Organisms

Lichen-dominated cryptoendolithic communities from the Dry Valleys of Antarctica have been the subject of much research over recent years owing to their potential as analogues of Martian life forms. Their ability to mobilize iron compounds and organize themselves into distinct coloured biotic zones suggests that they may alter the chemistry of their host rock. By conducting a major, minor and trace element study utilizing inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) and mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) techniques, we have been investigating the relationship between the microbes and the chemistry of the sandstones. Different layers within a suite of sandstones collected from six localities in the Dry Valleys have been analysed to establish if or how the microbes influence or directly affect the chemical composition of the rocks. Background petrographic studies have shown significant differences in mineralogical maturity between rocks colonized by the communities and those that are not, and the chemistry results have shown significant elemental disparity between colonized and uncolonized rocks. By obtaining accurate percentages of the minerals present in each sample the differences in elemental concentrations could be construed to be caused by the differences in mineralogy between samples. The nature and extent of the concentration differences has led to the conclusion that either the cryptoendolith communities are able to alter their host rock by the solubilization and mobilization of elements that are then subsequently removed or that the organisms are simple opportunists that can only successfully colonize rocks that provide the ideal substrate, being mineralogically mature with ample pore space and less concentrated in the elements tested for.

scholarly journals Gore Mountain Garnet Amphibolite records UHT Conditions: Implications for the Rheology of the Lower Continental Crust During Orogenesis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J Shinevar ◽  
Oliver Jagoutz ◽  
Jill A VanTongeren
Keyword(s):  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Diffusion Models ◽  
Hydration Reaction ◽  
Garnet Amphibolite ◽  
Grenville Province ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Trace Element Chemistry ◽  
Plasma Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Lower Crustal ◽  
Petrographic Study

Abstract The Gore Mountain Garnet Amphibolite (GMGA), part of the Mesoproterozoic Grenville province in the Adirondack Highlands, NY, USA, is an iconic rock type known for hosting the world’s largest garnets (up to 1 m diameter). We present a new detailed petrographic study of these rocks. Field relations, whole rock, and mineral major and trace element chemistry suggest that these rocks formed via a prograde hydration reaction of a metagabbro during an increase in pressure and temperature. Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) U-Pb geochronology applied to zircon interpreted to be metamorphic in origin dates this reaction to 1053.9±5.4 Ma (2σ; MSWD = 0.94), during the Ottawan Orogeny (1090-1020 Ma). Our results on peak metamorphic P-T conditions based on thermobarometry, diffusion models, and thermodynamic modelling indicate that these rocks formed at ultra-high temperature (UHT, &gt;900˚C) conditions (P = 9–10 kbar, T = 950±40˚C), significantly hotter than previously estimated. Diffusion models pinned by nearby cooling ages require the GMGA to initially cool quickly (9.1 ˚C Myr&lt;su-1p&gt;), followed by slower cooling (2.6 ˚C Myr&lt;su-1p&gt;). The two-stage cooling history for the GMGA could reflect initial advection-dominated cooling followed by conduction-dominated cooling once flow ceases. Our results suggest that the region was hot enough to undergo topography-driven lower crustal flow similar to that hypothesized for modern Tibet for 20–0 Myr (25–0 Myr when the effects of melt are included).

New geological model of the Lagoa Real uraniferous albitites from Bahia (Brazil)

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Oliveira Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Melt Inclusions ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Mineral Chemistry ◽  
Granitic Rocks ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Magmatic Differentiation ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Brasiliano Orogeny

AbstractNew evidence supported by petrography (including mineral chemistry), lithogeochemistry, U-Pb geochronology by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), and physicochemical study of fluid and melt inclusions by LA-ICP-MS and microthermometry, point to an orogenic setting of Lagoa Real (Bahia-Brazil) involving uraniferous mineralization. Unlike the previous models in which uraniferous albitites represent Na-metasomatised 1.75 Ga anorogenic granitic rocks, it is understood here that they correspond to metamorphosed sodium-rich and quartz-free 1.9 Ga late-orogenic syenitic rocks (Na-metasyenites). These syenitic rocks are rich not only in albite, but also in U-rich titanite (source of uranium). The interpretation of geochemical data points to a petrogenetic connection between alkali-diorite (local amphibolite protolith) and sodic syenite by fractional crystallization through a transalkaline series. This magmatic differentiation occurred either before or during shear processes, which in turn led to albitite and amphibolite formation. The metamorphic reactions, which include intense recrystallization of magmatic minerals, led uraninite to precipitate at 1.87 Ga under Oxidation/Reduction control. A second population of uraninites was also generated by the reactivation of shear zones during the 0.6 Ga Brasiliano Orogeny. The geotectonic implications include the importance of the Orosirian event in the Paramirim Block during paleoproterozoic Săo Francisco Craton edification and the influence of the Brasiliano event in the Paramirim Block during the West-Gondwana assembly processes. The regional microcline-gneiss, whose protolith is a 2.0 Ga syn-collisional potassic granite, represents the albitite host rock. The microcilne-gneiss has no petrogenetic association to the syenite (albitite protolith) in magmatic evolutionary terms.

scholarly journals Columbite U-Pb Geochronology of Kalu’an Lithium Pegmatites in Northern Xinjiang, China: Implications for Genesis and Emplacement History of Rare-Element Pegmatites

Minerals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonggang Feng ◽  
Ting Liang ◽  
Ze Zhang ◽  
Yiqian Wang ◽  
Yi Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
Oscillatory Zoning ◽  
Granitic Magma ◽  
Rare Element ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Electron Probe Micro Analyzer ◽  
Sector Zoning ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
History Of

The Kalu’an-Azubai pegmatite field, one of the most important rare-metal metallogenic regions in China, contains a large number of pegmatite dikes belonging to spodumene and lepidolite subtypes. Columbite-group minerals (CGMs) collected from three spodumene subtype pegmatites (No. 802, No. 803, and No. 805 pegmatites) were analyzed for major element contents using EPMA (electron probe micro-analyzer) and dated using LA-ICP-MS (laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer). The crystallization ages of the CGMs from No. 802, No. 803, and No. 805 pegmatites are 209.5 ± 1.4 Ma (2σ), 198.3 ± 2.0 Ma (2σ), and 224.3 ± 2.9 Ma (2σ), respectively. Oscillatory zoning and/or sector zoning along with the associated mineral assemblages suggest that the dated columbite is of magmatic origin. The crystallization ages of the columbite grains thus represent the emplacement ages of the Li pegmatites. Therefore, our dating results indicate that there were three emplacement events of the Li-rich pegmatite-forming melts in a timeframe of ~30 Ma. In combination with previous studies, we conclude that the Li pegmatites were formed before the Be-Ta-Nb pegmatites (~194–192 Ma), which precludes the genesis of rare-metal pegmatites via fractional crystallization of a granitic magma in the Kalu’an-Azubai region.

scholarly journals Integration of Fe in natural and synthetic Al-pyrophyllites: an infrared spectroscopic study

Clay Minerals ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Lantenois ◽  
J.-M. Beny ◽  
F. Muller ◽  
R. Champallier
Keyword(s):  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Chemical Compositions ◽  
Infrared Spectroscopic Study ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Fe Content ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Band Position ◽  
Natural And Synthetic

AbstractNumerous studies focus on the relationships between chemical composition and OH-band positions in the infrared (IR) spectra of micaceous minerals. These studies are based on the coexistence, in dioctahedral micas or smectites, of several cationic pairs around the hydroxyl group which each produce a characteristic band in the IR spectrum. The aim of this work is to obtain the wavenumber values of the IR OH vibration bands of the (Al-Fe3+)-OH and (Fe3+-Fe3+)-OH local cationic environments of ‘pyrophyllite type’ in order to prove, disprove or modify a model of dioctahedral phyllosilicate OH-stretching band decomposition. Natural samples are characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopies and electron microprobe; the hydrothermal synthesis products are also analysed by powder XRD and FTIR after inductively coupled plasma measurements to obtain the chemical compositions of starting gel phases. Natural samples contain some impurities which were eliminated after acid treatment; nevertheless, a small Fe content is found in the pyrophyllite structure. The amount of Fe which is incorporated within the pyrophyllite structure is much more important for the synthetic samples than for the natural ones. The IR OH bands were clearly observed in both natural and synthetic pyrophyllites and assigned to hydroxides bonded to (Al-Al), (Al-Fe) and (Fe-Fe) cationic pairs. During this study, three samples were analysed by DTG to check the cis- or trans-vacant character of the layers and to determine the influence of this structural character on the OH-stretching band position in IR spectroscopy.

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