Rottier B., Kouzmanov K., Bouvier A.-S., Baumgartner L.P, Wälle, M., Rezeau, H, Fontboté, L. (in press) Heterogeneous melt and hypersaline liquid inclusions in shallow porphyry type mineralization as markers of the magmatic-hydrothermal transition (Cerro de Pasco district, Peru), Chemical Geology, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.032

Siron G., Baumgartner L., Bouvier A.-S., Putlitz B., Vennemann T. (in press)

Biotite Reference Materials for Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry 18O/16O Measurements

Geostandard and Geoanalytical Reserarch, doi: 10.1111/ggr.12148

Contrasting hydrological processes of meteoric water incursion during magmatic–hydrothermal ore deposition: An oxygen isotope study by ion microprobe, by Szandra Fekete, Philipp Weis, Thomas Driesner, Anne-Sophie Bouvier, Lukas Baumgartner, Christoph A. Heinrich,

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Available online 28 July 2016, ISSN 0012-821X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.009.

Bégué F., Baumgartner L., Bouvier A.-S., Putlitz B., Vennemann T. (2016) Reactive fluid-flow and stable isotope exchange related to hydrothermal veins in carbonate xenoliths: a couples CL imaging and SIMS study, GSA abstract 2016

Lacroix B., Baumgartner L., Bouvier A.-S., Vennemann T. (2016) Multi fluid-flow events during mode I opening: a microstructural and SIMS study

Putlitz B., Seitz S., Baumgartner L., Bouvier A.-S. (2016) Oxygen isotope constraints on crustal melting: SIMS data from Jurassuc rhyolites of the Chon Aike Province (Patagonia, Argentina), GSA abstract 2016.

Siron G., Baumgartner L., Bouvier A.-S., Vennemann T. (2016) Water content of biotite as monitor of change in water activity, GSA abstract 2016.

After a few months of testing we are pleased to announce that U-Pb protocols have been revised and instrumental setup has been optimized for U-Pb ages. We can produce concordant, accurate and precise ages (within 1%) for zircon. Testing has been performed for ages from Miocene to early Proterozoic.

Monazite U-Pb dating has also been achieved with good precision. For this mineral however quality may depend on the chemical composition of the sample due to possible matrix effects.

At this stage, spot size is ~ 25 micron across (2 microns deep), and smaller spot sizes will depend on the age and composition of the sample.

We are at the stage where we welcome users (Master students to senior researchers) to propose project for U-Pb geochronology. For the next few sessions any U-Pb analysis will still be considered development and no charge will apply.

This worhskop will take place in La Chaux de Fond and Lausanne, from April 18th to 21st. More info can be found here:

https://mineral.cuso.ch/index.php?id=513&tx_displaycontroller[showUid]=2812

Two new papers have been submitted on March 31rst:

McCarthy A., Müntener O., Bouvier A.-S., Baumgartner L.P. (submitted) Melt Extraction Zones in Shallow Arc Plutons: Insights from Fisher Lake Orbicules and Comb Layers, Northern Sierra Nevada, submitted to Journal of Petrology

Seitz S., Baumgartner L.P., Bouvier A.-S., Putlitz B., Vennemann T. (submitted) Quartz Standards for Oxygen Isotope and Trace Element Analysis by SIMS, submitted to Geostandard and Geoanalytical Research

A new paper have been submitted:

Fekete S., Weis P., Dreisner T., Bouvier A.-S., Heinrich C. A., Baumgartner L. P. (under review) Contrasting hydrological processes of meteoric water incursion during magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposition, submitted to EPSL

“Biotite standards for SIMS oxygen isotopes analysis” by Siron, Guillaume; Baumgartner, Lukas; Bouvier, Anne-Sophie; Putlitz, Benita; Vennemann, Torsten,  has been submitted to Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research.