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Partial Dissolution of Glauconitic Samples: Implications for the Methodology of K-Ar and Rb-Sr Dating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Arkadiusz Derkowski ,
Jan Środoń ,
Wojciech Franus ,
Peter Uhlík ,
Michał Banaś ,
Grzegorz Zieliński ,
Maria Čaplovičová  and
Małgorzata Franus
Arkadiusz Derkowski*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Senacka 1, 31-002, Kraków, Poland
Jan Środoń
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Senacka 1, 31-002, Kraków, Poland
Wojciech Franus
Affiliation:
Department of Geotechnics, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 40, 20-618, Lublin, Poland
Peter Uhlík
Affiliation:
Department of Geology of Mineral Deposits, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia
Michał Banaś
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Senacka 1, 31-002, Kraków, Poland
Grzegorz Zieliński
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Senacka 1, 31-002, Kraków, Poland
Maria Čaplovičová
Affiliation:
Department of Geology of Mineral Deposits, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia
Małgorzata Franus
Affiliation:
Department of Geotechnics, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 40, 20-618, Lublin, Poland
*
* E-mail address of corresponding author: ndderkow@cyf-kr.edu.pl
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Abstract

The K-Ar dating of glauconite has been used as an important stratigraphic tool for many decades. The application of this technique is limited to pure glauconites, free of detrital contamination by K-bearing phases, often not easy to detect. This study extends the application of isotope dating to the contaminated glauconites and offers a precise technique for detecting the detrital contamination of glauconites.

The most common K-bearing detrital contaminants have smaller (K-feldspars, Al-rich dioctahedral micas) or greater (trioctahedral micas) dissolution rates than glauconite in extremely low pH solutions. The differences in the dissolution rates can be applied to evaluate the purity of the glauconite and its crystallization age.

The interlaboratory GLO glauconite standard and grain-size fractions separated from glauconitic sandstones of the Paleogene (sample GL) and Jurassic (sample GW8) ages were treated with acid (3M HCl, at 99±2°C) for different reaction times (0.5–7 h) and measured for their apparent isotopic ages.

Microporous amorphous silica with large specific surface area is the solid product of the reaction and its content increases with reaction time. The K-Ar dates (apparent ages) of the solid residues increase significantly with reaction time: from 44.6 to 107 Ma for the GL sample and from 125.7 to 394.7 Ma for GW8. The increase is negligible in the case of the GLO standard. The Rb-Sr data of the GL sample were modeled using initial 87Sr/Sr ratios of 0.707–0.709, which resulted in a 29.9–35.8 Ma date for the untreated portions of GL, and ∼42.6 Ma after 7 h of treatment.

The increase of isotopic K-Ar date with increasing time of dissolution is interpreted to be a result of increasing concentration of detrital, acid-resistant, K-bearing minerals, observed also with the electron microscope and X-ray diffraction. Probabilistic modeling based on single (K-Ar) or double (K-Ar and Rb-Sr) isotopic systems evaluated the isotopic ages of the detrital and authigenic minerals, and their K2O and Rb concentrations. The crystallization ages computed using these two methods are: 24.0, 26.5, and 32.3 Ma for the GL material, and 117.3–121.8 Ma for the GW8 series.

The proposed method based on partial dissolution is a potential tool for evaluating the reliability of glauconite dating.

Keywords

Acid DissolutionAuthigenic MineralsDetrital MineralsGlauconiteGLOK-Ar DatingMixed AgesRb-Sr Dating

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Clays and Clay Minerals , Volume 57 , Issue 5 , October 2009 , pp. 531 - 554
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Copyright © The Clay Minerals Society 2009

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