V33D:
Advanced Techniques for Determining Elemental Composition, Isotopic Abundance, and Radioisotopic Age Using Bulk and Microanalysis I

Session ID#: 2485

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
310 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Anette Von Der Handt, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States and John Fournelle, University of Wisconsin Madison, Dept. of Geoscience, Madison, United States
Primary Convener:  Chun-Yuan Huang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Co-conveners:  Matthew P McKay, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Dr. Besim Dragovic, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Anette Von Der Handt, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Berkeley Instrumental Neutron Generator (BINGE) for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology (27052)
Timothy A. Becker1, Lee Bernstein2, Richard B Firestone3, Leo Kirsch4, Ka-Ngo Leung4, Paul R Renne5,6, Andrew Rogers3, Karl Van Bibber4 and Cory Waltz4, (1)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Nuclear Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
C-H and C-C clumping in ethane by high-resolution mass spectrometry (Invited) (4842)
Matthieu Denis Clog, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and John M Eiler, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Use of New 1013 Ohm Current Amplifiers in U and Pb Isotope Ratio Analysis by TIMS (Invited) (5049)
Claudia Bouman, Anne Trinquier, Nicholas S Lloyd and Johannes B Schwieters, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen, Germany
Enhanced techniques for the measurement of ultra-low level (pg and fg) actinide analysis by ICP-MS for forensic and geologic applications (22815)
Anthony D Pollington, William Kinman and Susan K Hanson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Atmospheric 21Ne abundance determined by the Helix-MC Plus mass spectrometer (11344)
Masahiko Honda1, Xiaodong Zhang1, David Phillips2, Doug Hamilton3, Michael Deerberg3 and Johannes B Schwieters3, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences, Parkville, Australia, (3)Thermo Scientific, Bremen, Germany
Experiments with Low Voltage Field Emission EPMA (14477)
John Fournelle, University of Wisconsin Madison, Dept. of Geoscience, Madison, United States and Henrietta E Cathey, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ, United States
Gaining Precision and Accuracy on Microprobe Trace Element Analysis with the Multipoint Background Method (Invited) (4572)
Julien M Allaz, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael L Williams, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States, Michael J Jercinovic, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Climate, and Geographic Sciences, Amherst, MA, United States and John Donovan, University of Oregon, CAMCOR, Eugene, OR, United States
Discovering New Minerals at Micron to Nanoscales: A SEM-EBSD-EPMA Approach (Invited) (5016)
Chi Ma, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States