Atom probe tomography: Development and application to the geosciences

SM Reddy, DW Saxey, WDA Rickard… - Geostandards and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Atom probe tomography (APT) is an analytical technique that provides quantitative three‐
dimensional elemental and isotopic analyses at sub‐nanometre resolution across the whole …

Application of FIB‐SEM techniques for the advanced characterization of earth and planetary materials

L Gu, N Wang, X Tang, HG Changela - Scanning, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced microanalytical techniques such as high‐resolution transmission electron
microscopy (HRTEM), atom probe tomography (APT), and synchrotron‐based scanning …

Monazite and cassiterite UPb dating of the Abu Dabbab rare-metal granite, Egypt: Late Cryogenian metalliferous granite magmatism in the Arabian-Nubian Shield

B Lehmann, BA Zoheir, LA Neymark, A Zeh, A Emam… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Abu Dabbab rare-metal granite in the Eastern Desert of Egypt is a highly-
evolved alkali-feldspar granite with transitional magmatic-hydrothermal features. Extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Radiogenic Pb in xenotime trapped in nanoscale inclusions of apatite during fluid alteration

C Joseph, D Fougerouse, SM Reddy, HKH Olierook… - Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study focuses on the low-temperature mineralogical response of xenotime, a phosphate
mineral routinely used as a geochronometer, to fluid-assisted alteration. The studied …

Texturally controlled U–Th–Pb monazite geochronology reveals Paleoproterozoic UHT metamorphic evolution in the Khondalite belt, North China craton

S Jiao, ICW Fitzsimons, JW Zi, NJ Evans… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sapphirine-bearing UHT granulites from the Dongpo locality in the Khondalite Belt of the
North China Craton have been comprehensively characterized in terms of petrology, mineral …

Standardizing spatial reconstruction parameters for the atom probe analysis of common minerals

D Fougerouse, DW Saxey, WDA Rickard… - Microscopy and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Well-defined reconstruction parameters are essential to quantify the size, shape, and
distribution of nanoscale features in atom probe tomography (APT) datasets. However, the …

Experimental alteration of monazite in granitic melt: Variable U–Th–Pb and REE mobility during melt-mediated coupled dissolution-precipitation

J Varga, T Raimondo, NR Daczko, J Adam - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Monazite U–Th–Pb geochronology of high-temperature and melt-bearing
metamorphic rocks sometimes produces a continuum of concordant ages ('smear') without …

Microstructural and isotopic analysis of shocked monazite from the Hiawatha impact structure: development of porosity and its utility in dating impact craters

WR Hyde, GG Kenny, MJ Whitehouse, R Wirth… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2024 - Springer
U–Pb geochronology of shocked monazite can be used to date hypervelocity impact events.
Impact-induced recrystallisation and formation of mechanical twins in monazite have been …

A 2D and 3D nanostructural study of naturally deformed pyrite: assessing the links between trace element mobility and defect structures

R Dubosq, A Rogowitz, K Schweinar, B Gault… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2019 - Springer
The links between deformation-induced micro-and nanostructures and trace element
mobility in sulphide minerals have recently become a popular subject of research in the …

[HTML][HTML] The shocking state of apatite and merrillite in shergottite Northwest Africa 5298 and extreme nanoscale chlorine isotope variability revealed by atom probe …

JR Darling, LF White, T Kizovski, A Černok… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
The elemental and chlorine isotope compositions of calcium-phosphate minerals are key
recorders of the volatile inventory of Mars, as well as the planet's endogenous magmatic and …