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- Title: Cathodoluminescence in Geosciences
- Author: M. Pagel, V. Barbin, P. Blanc, D.Ohnenstetter
- Publisher: Springer
- Pages: 518
The introduction of the electron microprobe in the 1960s led to cathodoluminescence (CL) becoming a very useful method for mineral studies. From the late 1980s up to now, the development of in situ analytical techniques, such as SIMS and PIXE, promoted the use of C1. The benefit is mutual. On the one hand,growth, structural and alteration patterns revealed by CL are necessary to obtain representative in situ analyses. The section in this volume on geochronology is a good illustration of the importance of CL in U-Pb dating of zircon.
On the other hand, a better understanding of CL images requires the use of in situ analyses. The availability of new CL apparatuses which permit the study of minerals that are only slightly luminescent opens up new avenues of research. Several fields are emerging: CL in structural geology and fluid circulation, CL in ceramics, CL in petrology.
Noting this formidable growth of CL in geosciences and geomaterials, a group of French mineralogists (Vincent Barbin, Philippe Blanc, Fabien Cesbron, Daniel Ohnenstetter and Maurice Pagel) decided, at the beginning of 1995, to organize a CL meeting. The International Conference on Cathodoluminescence and Related Techniques in Geosciences and Geomaterials (Nancy, France, September 2-4, 1996) was supported by three scientific societies: Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA), Society for Luminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy (SLMS) and Societe Fran’raise de Mineralogie et de Cristallographie (SFMC) in cooperation with the Institut Lorrain des Geosciences. There were 110 participants from 18 countries; the meeting was held in the “Palais des Congres”. Some 82 oral and poster communications were presented and the abstracts were print ed in a volume of 175 pages.
This Conference was successful in many aspects. The scientific exchanges between geologists and physicists were very constructive and informative. Participants compared their instrumentation and results and expressed their commitment to promote this rapidly developing science.