Application

Quartz, one of the most abundant minerals in Earth's crust, has traditionally been regarded as challenging for U-Pb dating. Recent breakthroughs in laser ablation ICP-MS technology now enable in-situ high-precision measurement of trace uranium and lead in quartz. This technique allows direct dating of hydrothermal quartz veins, ore-forming stage quartz, and low-grade metamorphic quartz, providing precise chronological constraints on hydrothermal mineralization events, fluid activity timing, and brittle-ductile deformation episodes. It holds revolutionary application value in the fields of ore deposit geology, structural geology, and basin analysis.