The Role of Microfractures in the Development of Quartz Overgrowth Cements in Sandstones: New Evidence from Cathodoluminescence Studies

Density and distribution of microfractures in sandstones: importance to diagenesis.


The Oxford Instruments webpage on scanned cathodoluminescence.

The Society for Luminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy (SLMS)

An excellent image of a zircon under CL from Rice University. If you look at it you might consider whether the light-colored planar features are "healed" fractures.


Research report from Arizona State University on the uses of Scanned CL: CAN PHOTO- AND CATHODOLUMINESCENCE BE REGARDED AS COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES?

Cathodoluminescence Investigation of the Evolution of Zircon Crystal Shapes Applied to Supplement Geochemical Studies

DIAGENETIC HISTORY OF SEDIMENTARY CARBONATES: CONSTRAINTS FROM COMBINED CATHODOLUMINESCENCE AND TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSES BY MICRO-PIXE

Microscopy and Analysis Magazine WWW site

Scanned Cathodoluminescence of Vein Quartz by Sarah Penniston-Dorland, The Johns Hopkins University.

Frac-City

Lars Moeller has posted some CL images of Danish sandstones.

This is probably a copyright violation, but someone else has put up some sandstone CL images from-- Luminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy : Qualitive and Quantitative Applications (Charles E. Barker and Otto C. Kopp, Editors)

Charles Onasch, Bowling Green State University, has posted some CL images, sandstones are at the bottom.

Jim Connelly, UTDOGS, discusses zircon CL

UTDOGS Microbeam page

CL of iron-manganese deposit, Swizterland

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