Guides, Databases, Resources
Detection limits; optical scanning; X-ray maps; JEOL and CAMECA databases; X-ray lines and edges
- Optical scanning of thin sections should be done at the Digital Imaging Facility, prior to analysis
- Colouring X-ray maps: method for applying pseudo-colours to X-ray maps using ImageJ (pdf)
- ImageJ macro (filename: colorXray.macro); converts series of grayscale (.tif) images to colour files; please open this file in a text editor to see more comments
- Rotating and Merging X-ray maps: method for merging X-ray maps using Photoshop (pdf)
- X-ray Mapping in Electron-Beam Instruments (Friel and Lyman, 2006)
- GSC Open File 4941: The measurement of the modal mineralogy of rocks from SEM imagery: the use of Multispec © and ImageJ freeware, by J.W. Lydon (2005)
- Image Analysis in Earth Sciences (Heilbronner and Barrett, 2014, 520 p.)
- JEOL microprobe database; CAMECA microprobe database (UMass); includes
- determination of X-ray interferences
- X-ray lines
- calculation of mineral formulas
- oxide-element-formula conversions
- and much more....
- Literature reference (Allaz 2024) for these databases (De-MA.ch)
- JEOL manuals: Zurich (JXA-8230); New Mexico (JXA-8200); USGS (JXA-8900); CalTech (JXA-733)