Dr Bence Paul
June 7, 2013
In our previous post, we discussed some basic ways to customise Iolite. Continuing on from there, we’ll look at how to set up the Traces Window so that it displays your favourite channels, with your preferred zoom levels, each time you crunch your data. It’s quite common that if you’re analysing similar samples regularly, such…
Dr Bence Paul
May 23, 2013
There are plenty of ways to customise Iolite. We’re going to break them up into three main categories: basics, viewing, and DRS specific. So let’s start with the basics. If you haven’t already noticed, in the Iolite menu at the top, there’s an item called “Modify Iolite’s default settings”. Selecting this item opens a panel…
Dr Chad Paton
May 3, 2013
As with the last post, this is a follow-up to a question posted on the Iolite forum, this time by Jiri Slama (the forum thread can be found here). To summarise, he has previously used a raster pattern when measuring U-Pb ages in zircons, and wanted to know whether there is a best practice when…
Dr Chad Paton
April 6, 2013
I was recently asked on the forum to explain the downhole-corrected ages produced by the UPb DRS, and Luigi suggested that I turn my reply into a blog post – so here it is… To give a bit of context (the original forum thread can also be found here), Luigi noticed that his downhole-corrected ratios…
There are some noteworthy improvements in the latest release of the UPb DRS (U_Pb_Geochronology3), so I thought I should post a description of what’s changed. One of the biggest changes is that flexibility has been added in which isotopes have been measured – previous versions required 206, 207, 208, 232, and 238 (with an option…
Dr Bence Paul
March 6, 2013
The Iolite Wiki (http://iolite.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/wiki/doku) has a shiny new theme, and is now more readable. We’ve updated parts of the online manual, which we recommend is your first port of call if you’re new to Iolite. You can also find example data files and more information on the Trace_Element_IS and U-Pb geochronology DRS. If you have…
Dr Bence Paul
February 28, 2013
We’ve started preparing the Iolite 2013 Workshop, to be held in Florence, Italy, the weekend before the Goldschmidt Conference. Here is a brief list of some of the topics we will be covering: An introduction to the Iolite data reduction flow How to install and use Iolite Loading and checking mass spec data in Iolite…
Dr Bence Paul
January 29, 2013
Below are some provisional details regarding the Iolite Workshop, to be held in conjunction with the Goldschmidt Conference in Florence, August 2013. The workshop runs for two days, and is aimed at users of all levels from complete novice to programmer. The first day is perfect for beginners and all those who would like to…
Dr Bence Paul
October 22, 2012
*** Updated with interference goodness! *** Seeing as it’s been a while since we last posted to the blog, we thought it’d be a good idea to point out that the Iolite team aren’t the only ones working on Iolite. There are others who are improving Iolite by adding their own features to make their…
Dr Bence Paul
April 26, 2012
The Iolite team and Ash Norris from Resonetics have been working on a new way of creating images. We take the spatial information recorded in laser log files and combine that with mass spec data to produce images of composition versus sampling position in the laser cell. This has some great advantages:-images don’t need to…
