High-reliability zircon separation for hunting the oldest material on Earth: An automatic zircon separator with image-processing/microtweezers-manipulating system and double-step dating

High-reliability zircon separation for hunting the oldest material on Earth: An automatic zircon separator with image-processing/microtweezers-manipulating system and double-step dating

Despite the recent development in radiometric dating of numerous zircons by LA-ICPMS, mineral separation still remains a major obstacle, particularly in the search for the oldest material on Earth. To improve the efficiency in zircon separation by an order of magnitude, we have designed/developed a...

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Main Authors: Yukio Isozaki, Shinji Yamamoto, Shuhei Sakata, Hideyuki Obayashi, Takafumi Hirata, Ken-ichi Obori, Toshinori Maebayashi, Satoshi Takeshima, Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, Shigenori Maruyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-07-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987117300956

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