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Isotopes in Tourmaline

last update: 04/17/06

Chaussidon, M. and Albarede, F. (1990) An ion microprobe study of secular boron isotope variations in tourmalines. Abstracts of the 7th International Conference on Geochemistry, Cosmochemistry and Isotope Geochemistry, Canberra, A. C. T., 18.

Chaussidon, M. and Albarede, F. (1992) Secular boron isotope variations in the continental crust: An ion microprobe study. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 108, 229-241.

Chaussidon, M. and Appel, P. W. U. (1997) Boron isotopic composition of tourmalines from the 3.8 Ga-old Isua supracrustals, West Greenland: implication on the d ¹¹B value of early Archean seawater. Chemical Geology, 136, 171-180.

Jiang, S. (1998) Stable and radiogenic isotope studies of tourmaline: An overview. Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 43, 75-90.

Jiang, S. and Palmer, M. R. (1998) Boron isotope systematics of tourmaline from granites and pegmatites: a synthesis. European Journal of Mineralogy, 6, 1253-1266.

Jiang, S., Palmer, M. R., Slack, J. F. and Shaw, D. R. (1999) Boron isotope systematics of tourmaline formation in the Sullivan Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, British Culumbia, Canada. Chemical Geology, 158, 131-144.

Kasemann, S., Erzinger, J. and Franz, G. (2000) Boron recycling in the continental crust of the central Andes from the Palaeozoic to Mesozoic, NW Argentina. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 140, 328-343.

London, D. and Palmer, M. R. (1990) Fractionation of ¹¹B/¹⁰B between tourmaline and aqueous vapor. Geological Society of America Abstract with Program, 22, Al57.

Nakamura, E. and Nakano, T. (2000) Boron isotopic geochemistry of metasedimentary rocks and tourmalines in a subduction-zone metamorphic suite. Goldschmidt 2000, Journal of Conference Abstracts, 5, 738.

Palmer, M. R. (1991) Boron isotope systematics of hydrothermal fluids and tourmaline: A synthesis. Chemical Geology, 94,111-121.

Palmer, M. R., London, D., Morgan, G. B. and Babb, H. A. (1992) Experimental determination of fractionation of ¹¹B/¹⁰B between tourmaline and aqueous vapor: temperature and pressure-dependent isotopic system. In Frontiers in Isotope Geosciences (R. S. Harmon and R. W. Hinton, eds.) Chemical Geology. Isotope Geoscience Section, 101, 123-129.

Palmer, M. R. and Slack, J. F. (1995) Boron isotopic composition of tourmaline-rich rocks and tourmalinites from the Middle Proterozoic Belt and Purcell Supergroup, Rocky Mountains. GACMAC abstracts.

Palmer, M. R. and Swihart, G. H. (1996) Boron isotope geochemistry: An Overview. In Grew, E. S. and Anovitz, L. M. (eds.) Boron: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry in the Earth’s Crust, Reviews of Mineralogy, 33, 709-744.

Slack, J. F., Palmer, M. R. and Stevens, B. P. J. (1989) Boron isotope evidence for the involvement of non-marine evaporites in the origin of the Broken Hill ore deposits. Nature, 342, 913-916.

Smith, M. P. and Yardley, B. W. D. (1996) The boron isotopic compostion of tourmaline as a guide to fluid processes in the southwestern England orefield: an ion microprobe study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60, 1415-1427.

Swihart, G. H. and Moore, P. B. (1989) A reconnaissance of the boron isotopic composition of tourmaline. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 53, 911-916.

Taylor, B. E., Palmer, M. R. and Slack, J. F. (1999) Mineralizing fluids in the Kidd Creek massive sulfide deposit, Ontario: Evidence from oxygen, hydrogen, and boron isotopes in tourmaline. Economic Geology Monograph 10, 389-414.

Tonarini, S., Dini, A., Pezzotta, F. and Leeman, W. P. (1998) Boron isotopic composition of zoned (schorl-elbaite) tourmalines, Mt. Capanne Li-Cs pegmatites, Elba (Italy). European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 941-952.

Blamart, D. (1991) "Les concentrations tungstifères et stannifères :caractérisations isotopiques (H-O) des fluides minéralisateurs, sur l'exemple du gisement Sn-W de Walmès (Maroc Central)". Détermination de quelques fractionnements isotopiques (H-O) entre minéraux et eau. Thèse publiée I.N.P.L. 193 p, Nancy-France.

Blamart, D., Pichavant, M., and Sheppard, S. M. F. (1988) D/H isotopic fractionation between tourmaline and water; the experimental calibration of tourmaline-mineral geothermometers at 500 degrees to 700 degrees C. Chemical Geology. 70. (112).p. 182

Blamart, D., Pichavant, M. and Sheppard, S. M. F. (1989) Determination experimentale du fractionnement isotopique D/H entre tourmaline et eau a 600, 500 C et 3 kbar. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 308-Il, 39-44.

Blamart, D., Boutaleb, M., Sheppard, S. Marignac, C. and Weisbrod, A. (1992) A comparative thermobarometric (chemical and isotopic) study of a tourmalinized pelite and its Sn-Be vein, Walmes, Morocco. European Journal of Mineralogy, 4, 355-368.

Dyar, M. D., Guidotti, C. V., Core, D. P., Wearn, K. M., Wise, M. A., Francis, C. A., Johnson, K., Brady, J. B., Robertson, J. D. and Cross, L. R. (1999) Stable isotope and crystal chemistry of tourmaline across pegmatite-country rocks boundaries at Black Mountain and Mount Mica, southwestern Maine, USA. European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 281-294.

France-Lanord, C., Sheppard, S. M. F. and Le Fort, P. (1988) Hydrogen and oxygen isotope variations in the High Himalaya peraluminous Manaslu leucogranite: evidence for heterogeneous sedimentary source. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 52, 513-526.

Giere, R. and Rumble, D. (1994) Growth and corrosion of tourmaline during metamorphism of pelitic schists from the central Alps. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, 7, A449.

Jiang, S. (1998) Stable and radiogenic isotope studies of tourmaline: An overview. Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 43, 75-90.

Jibao, G. and Yaqian, Q. (1997) Hydrogen isotope fractionation and hydrogen diffusion in the tourmaline-water system. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 4679-4688.

Kotzer, T. G., Kyser, T. K., King, R. W. and Kerrich, R. (1993) An empirical oxygen- and hydrogen-isotope geothermometer for quartz tourmaline and tourmaline-water. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 57, 3421-3426.

Taylor, R. P., Ikingura, J. R., Fallick, A. E., Huang, Yiming, and Watkinson, D. H. (1992) Stable isotope compositions of tourmalines from granites and related hydrothermal rocks of the Karagwe-Ankolean Belt, Northwest Tanzania. Chemical Geology Isotope Geoscience Section. 94. (3). p.215-227.

Taylor, B. E., Palmer, M. R. and Slack, J. F. (1999) Mineralizing fluids in the Kidd Creek massive sulfide deposit, Ontario: Evidence from oxygen, hydrogen, and boron isotopes in tourmaline. Economic Geology Monograph 10, 389-414.

Zheng, Y. (1993) Calculation of oxygen isotope fractionation in hydroxyl-bearing silicates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 120, 247-263.

Jiang, S. (1998) Stable and radiogenic isotope studies of tourmaline: An overview. Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 43, 75-90.

Jiang, S. -Y., Ding, T.-P., Wan, D. -F. and Li, Y.-H. (1993) Silicon isotopic compositions of Archean banded Si-Fe formation (BIF) in the Gongchangling ore deposit, Liaoning province, China. Science in China (series B), 36, 482-489.

Jiang, S. Y., Palmer, M. R., Ding, T. P. and Wan, D. F. (1994) Silicon isotope geochemistry of the Sullivan Pb-Zn deposit, Canada - A preliminary study. Economic Geology, 89, 1623-1629.

Jiang, S. (1998) Stable and radiogenic isotope studies of tourmaline: An overview. Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 43, 75-90.

Jiang, S. Y., Han, F., Shen, J. and Palmer, M. R. (1999) Chemical and Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd isotopic systematics of tourmaline from the Dachang Sn-polymetallic ore deposit, Guangxi Province, P. R. China. Cheimical Geology, 157, 49-67.

King, Robert W. and Kerrich, Robert W. (1989) Strontium isotope compositions of tourmaline from lode gold deposits of the Archean Abitibi greenstone belt (Ontario-Quebec, Canada); implications for source reservoirs. Chemical Geology Isotope Geoscience Section. 79. (3). p. 225-240.

Kontak, D. J. and Kerrich, R. (1997) An isotopic (C, O, Sr) study of vein gold deposits in the Meguma Terrane. Nova Scotia: Implication form source reservoirs. Economic Geology, 92, 161-180.

Darrell Henry is the Campanile Charities Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University whose research specialty is metamorphic petrology. Further details of his professional background are included in an accompanying vita or faculty profile.

To contact Darrell Henry call (225)-578-2693, fax (225)-578-2302 or e-mail dhenry@geol.lsu.edu . Address: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.

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