A SIMS study of the transition elemental distribution between bands in banded Australian sedimentary opal from the Lightning Ridge locality

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 193-199

  Thomas, Paul S ^a   Brown, Leslie D ^a   Ray, Abhi S ^a   Prince, Kathryn E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian sedimentary opal; SIMS; Trace elements analysis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; INTERFACE; LASER METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPAL; REACTION KINETICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

EID: 33646392446     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2006/0044     Document Type: Article

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