Features necessary to make a scanning nuclear microprobe a useful tool in geological studies are summarized and its present position among other microanalytical techniques is reviewed.
Materials Research Group, National Accelerator Centre, P.O. Box 72, Faure 7131, South Africa
References
1. F. Watt, G.W. Grime, D.G. Fraser, in: Principles and Applications of High-Energy Ion Microbeams, Eds. F. Watt, G.W. Grime, Adam Hilger, Bristol 1987, p. 238