Trace element analyses of carbonates using portable and micro-X-ray fluorescence: performance and optimization of measurement parameters and strategies KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Variations in elemental abundances in carbonate archives offer a wealth of information that can be used as a proxy for the palaeoenvironment and diagenetic history. The state-of-the-art portable handheld X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) and laboratory micro X-ray Fluorescence (μXRF) instruments provide a relatively inexpensive, fast and non-destructive way of acquiring these trace element composition data. ...