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Optical microscope-cathodoluminescence (OM–CL) imaging as a powerful tool to reveal internal textures of minerals

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Optical microscope-cathodoluminescence (OM-CL) microscopy is a modern luminescence technique with widespread applications in geosciences. Many rock-forming and accessory minerals show specific CL properties that can be successfully used in geoscience and materials science research. One of the most spectacular applications is the visualization of growth textures, alteration, and other internal textures in minerals that are not discernible with other analytical techniques. These results provide information about the real structure of minerals and materials and can be used for the reconstruction of geological processes of mineral formation and subsequent alteration. The information obtained from CL imaging in combination with spectral measurements of the CL emission allows for a more thorough understanding of structural states of solids and/or trace-element incorporation. Additional information can be obtained when luminescence studies are combined with other analytical techniques with high sensitivity and high spatial resolution.

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Acknowledgements

Several colleagues supported CL studies during the last years by providing interesting sample material, which is gratefully acknowledged. We would also like to thank in particular Michael Magnus (Freiberg) and Dieter Dettmar (Bochum), who excellently prepared polished thin sections for the CL investigations. The comments of Lutz Nasdala (Vienna) and two anonymous reviewers helped to improve the quality of the paper.

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    Jens Götze & Ulf Kempe

  2. Department of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany

    Hans-Peter Schertl & Rolf D. Neuser

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, A1B 3X5, Canada

    John M. Hanchar

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Götze, J., Schertl, HP., Neuser, R.D. et al. Optical microscope-cathodoluminescence (OM–CL) imaging as a powerful tool to reveal internal textures of minerals. Miner Petrol 107, 373–392 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-012-0256-0

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