Semi-quantitative chemical analysis of garnet and jade in mounted jewels by non-destructive Raman microscopy: Recent progress with the analytical method

Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geologica

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-89

  Smith, D C ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNET; GEMSTONE; JADEITE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0037860754     PISSN: 00017132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Pinet M., Smith D.C., 1993: La microspectrométrie Raman des grenats X 3 Y 2 Z 3 O 12: I. La série calcique naturelle ouvarovite-grossulaire-andradite. Schweiz. Mineral. Petrog. Mitt. (Bulletin Suisse) 73/1: 21-40.
2. Pinet M., Smith D.C., 1994: La microspectrométrie Raman des grenats X 3 Y 2 Z 3 O 12: II. La série alumineuse naturelle pyrope-almandin-spessartite. Schweiz. Mineral. Petrog. Mitt. (Bulletin Suisse) 74/2: 161-179.
3. Smith D.C., 2001: Semi-quantitative chemical analysis of jade & garnet jewels by non-destructive Raman Microscopy. Colloquium: "Raman Spectroscopy in archaeology and art history", The British Museum, London, 20 November 2001.
4. Smith D.C., Boyer H., 1985: Raman microprobe fingerprinting of ordered and disordered pyroxenes in the system diopside-omphacite-jadeite. Second Internat. Eclogite Conf., Terra Cognita 5, n° 4, 429.
5. Smith D.C., Gendron G., 1997: Archaeometric application of the Raman Microprobe to the non-destructive identification of two pre-Columbian ceremonial polished "greenstone" axe-heads from Mesoamerica. J. Raman Spectrosc. 28: 731-738.
6. Smith D.C., Pinet M., 1989: A method for single variable plotting of multi-dimensional chemical data for comparing Raman wavenumbers with chemical variations in solid-solutions. GEORAMAN-89: CONTRIBUTIONS, Special Pub. ANRT, Association Nationale de la Recherche Technique, Paris, 24.
7. Smith D.C., Pinet M., Boyer H., 1988: Raman spectra of ternary pyralspite garnets and their preliminary calibration for the chemical analysis of synthetic or natural micron-size crystals. Terra Cognita 8, n° 1: 77-78.
8. Smith D.C., Pinet M., Yang J., 1989: A Raman microspectrometric calibration for the chemical analysis of pyroxenes in the system diopside-hedenbergite-aegirine. GEORAMAN-89: CONTRIBUTIONS, Special Pub. ANRT, Association Nationale de la Recherche Technique, Paris, 25.