LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating of dacite in the Sangthong Au mining area, Luang Prabang-Loei metallogenetic belt, SW Laos

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Lin-nan Guo and Zhen-wen Liao conceived of the presented idea. Lin-nan Guo, Zhen-wen Liao, Bin Zhang, Yong-fei Yang, Si-wei Xu, and Hui-min Liang conducted the field work and collected the samples. Lin-nan Guo, Chun-mei Huang, and Xiang-ting Zeng analyzed the samples and drew all the figures. Lin-nan Guo and Chun-mei Huang verified the analytical methods. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgment

This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42102113), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFC2901803), the China Geological Survey Project (Grant No. DD20230579), and China Scholarship Council (File No. 202108575008).

Supplementary dataset

Supplementary data (Supplementary Table S1) to this article can be found online at doi: 10.31035/cg20240051.

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