Contemporary soil, agronomic, and environmental investigations require high quality data
for the development of sound management decisions. For years, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) …

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is a modern method of element analysis, widely
applied in forensic science, archeology, geochemistry and other fields. Chemometric data …

The research on meteorites from hot and cold deserts is gaining advantages from the recent
improvements of portable technologies such as X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF). The …

Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in soils pose severe threats to the environment and human
health. It is therefore imperative to have access to simple, rapid, portable, and accurate …

One geoscience application of portable XRF (pXRF) technology is acquiring 'whole-
rock'analyses of unmineralized or weakly mineralized rock cores for major oxides and trace …

This is an exciting time for archaeology. The ongoing miniaturization of analytical
instrumentation has advanced to a state where traditionally lab-based analysis can now be …

Earthquakes and tsunami repeatedly occur in the coastal areas of the Japanese islands,
which are located on the margin of continental plates. Paleotsunami deposits in these areas …

Granulometric aggregate fractions (20 µm–2 mm) of chernozem soils with different
agriculture-use histories (native steppe, permanent bare fallow, arable land, and shelterbelt) …

This review demonstrates advances in XRF instrumentation, techniques and data
processing algorithms published during the last year. Pixellated detectors and EDXRF …

The increasing proportion of unconventional worldwide energy demands have consistently
promoted the necessity for exploring a precise, high-resolution, objective, and quantitative …