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
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…
We’ve had a few questions regarding how Iolite estimates down-hole fractionation (in the U-Pb DRS), and several people have also had problems reducing their data because the algorithms didn’t work as they should.So, I figured it might be useful to describe a bit about how the depth is estimated, and more practically to explain how…
