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Improvements in precision and accuracy in *in situ* Hf isotope microanalysis of zircon using the laser ablation-MC-ICPMS technique. **Chemical Geology**, **220**, 121–137.

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Accepted Article
U-Pb geochronology and Hf-isotope geochemistry of detrital zircon in sedimentary systems.

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Accepted Article
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Rapid, precise and accurate Os isotope ratio measurements of nanogram to sub-nanogram amounts using multiple Faraday collectors and amplifiers equipped with 10¹² Ω resistors by N-TIMS. **Chemical Geology, 363**, 301–311.

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Precise U-Pb zircon dating at a scale of < 5 micron by the CAMECA 1280 SIMS using a Gaussian illumination probe. **Journal of Analytical and Atomic Spectrometry, 26**, 845–851.

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**Mason P.R.D. and Mank A.J.G. (2001)**

Depth-resolved analysis in multi-layered glass and metal materials using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). **Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 16**, 1381–1388.

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Microfluidic sample preparation for elemental analysis in liquid samples using micro X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. **X-Ray Spectrometry**. doi: 10.1002/xrs.2559.

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Accepted Article
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Surface exposure dating of the Veliki vrh rock avalanche in Slovenia associated with the 1348 earthquake. **Quaternary Geochronology 22**, 33-42.

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Investigating microbe-mineral interactions: Recent advances in X-ray and electron microscopy and redox-sensitive methods. **Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences**, **42**, 271-289.

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Preconcentration of radioiodine as AgI and purification from radiotellurium waste. **Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry**, **300**, 1089-1097.

**Münsterer C., Wacker L., Hattendorf B., Christl M., Koch J., Dietiker R., Synal H.-A. and Günther D. (2014)**

Rapid revelation of radiocarbon records with laser ablation accelerator mass spectrometry. **CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry**, **68**, 215-216.

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Depth-selective elemental imaging of microSD card by confocal micro XRF analysis. **X-Ray Spectrometry**, **42**, 123-127.

Accepted Article
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Zircon M257 – A homogeneous natural reference material for the ion microprobe U-Pb
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Naumenko M.O., Mezger K., Nägler T.F. and Villa I.M. (2013)

High precision determination of the terrestrial $^{40}$K abundance. **Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta**, **122**, 353–362.

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UV laser ablation ICP-MS: some applications in the Earth Sciences. **Geostandards Newsletter: The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis**, **20**, 231–243.

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Effects of the sample interface in MC-ICP-MS: Relative elemental sensitivities and non-linear mass dependent fractionation of Nd isotopes. **Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry**, **28**, 63–70.

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High sensitivity skimmers and non-linear mass dependent fractionation in ICP-MS. **Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry**, **24**, 742–751.

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New attempts to understand nanodiamond stardust. **Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia**, **29**, 90–97.

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Accepted Article
Iolite: Freeware for the visualisation and processing of mass spectrometric data. **Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 26**, 2508–2518.

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CellSpace: A module for creating spatially registered laser ablation images within the Iolite freeware environment. **Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 27**, 700–706.

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Interlaboratory study of the ion source memory effect in ³⁶Cl accelerator mass spectrometry.

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VizualAge: A novel approach to laser ablation ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology data reduction.

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Accepted Article
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Ramsey M.H. and Boon K.A. (2012)

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Multiple collector ICP-MS: Introduction to instrumentation, measurement techniques and analytical capabilities. Geostandards Newsletter: The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis, 25, 23-40.

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Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the high Arctic yield insight into camel evolution.
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Accepted Article
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Measurement of hydrogen isotopes, D/H-ratio in thin samples. **Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 306**, 54-58.

**Ros L., Borysiuk M., Kristiansson P., Abdel N., Elfman M., Nilsson E.J.C. and Pallon J. (2014)**

Calibration of an elastic recoil setup for D/H-ratios close to natural abundance. **Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 332**, 187-190.

**Ross P.-S., Bourke A. and Fresia B. (2013)**

A multi-sensor logger for rock cores: Methodology and preliminary results from the Matagami mining camp, Canada. **Ore Geology Reviews, 53**, 93-111.

**Ross P.-S., Bourke A. and Fresia B. (2014a)**

Improving lithological discrimination in exploration drill-cores using portable X-ray fluorescence measurements: (1) testing three Olympus Innov-X analysers on unprepared cores. **Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 14**, 171-185.

**Ross P.-S., Bourke A. and Fresia B. (2014b)**

Improving lithological discrimination in exploration drill-cores using portable X-ray fluorescence measurements: (2) applications to the Zn-Cu Matagami mining camp, Canada. **Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 14**, 187-196.

**Roux C., Le Gal La Salle C., Simonucci C., Van Meir N., Fifield L.K., ASTER Team, Diez O., Bassot S., Simler R., Bugai D., Kashparov V. and Lancelot J. (2014)**

High ³⁶Cl/Cl ratios in Chernobyl groundwater. **Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 138**, 19-32.

**Ryan C.G., Siddons D.P., Kirkham R., Li Z.Y., de Jonge M.D., Paterson D., Cleverley J.S., Kuczewski A., Dunn P.A., Jensen M., De Geronimo G., Howard D.L., Godel B., Dyl K.A., Fisher L.A., Hough R.H., Barnes S.J., Bland P.A., Moorhead G., James S.A., Spiers K.M., Falkenberg G., Boesenberg U. and Wellenreuther G. (2013)**

The Maia detector array and X-ray fluorescence imaging system: locating rare precious metal phases in complex samples. **In: Lai B. (ed.)**, X-ray nanoimaging: Instruments and Methods. SPIE Proceedings 8851, 88510Q.

Accepted Article
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Uranium-236 as a new oceanic tracer: A first depth profile in the Japan Sea and comparison with caesium-137. *Earth and Planetary Science Letters, **333–334*, 165–170.

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A chronology of Holocene and Little Ice Age glacier culminations of the Steingletscher, Central Alps, Switzerland, based on high-sensitivity beryllium-10 moraine dating. *Earth and Planetary Science Letters, **393***, 220–230.

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Speciation of iodine isotopes inside and outside of a contaminant plume at the Savannah River Site. *Science of the Total Environment, **497–498***, 671–678.

Shaheen M.E., Gagnon J.E. and Fryer B.J. (2012)

Femtosecond (fs) lasers coupled with modern ICP-MS instruments provide new and improved potential for *in situ* elemental and isotopic analyses in the geosciences. *Chemical Geology, **330–331***, 260–273.

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Airborne plutonium and non-natural uranium from the Fukushima DNPP Found at 120 km distance a few days after reactor hydrogen explosions. *Environmental Science and Technology, **48***, 3808–3814.

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Fukushima's forgotten radionuclides: A review of the understudied radioactive emissions.
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**Trimby P.W. (2012)**

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Accepted Article
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Hadean age for a post-magma-ocean zircon confirmed by atom-probe tomography. **Nature Geoscience, 7**, 219–223.

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Development of a fast laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry cell for sub-µm scanning of layered materials. **Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry**, DOI: 10.1039/C4JA00137K.

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Direct coupling of a laser ablation cell to an AMS. **Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 294**, 287–290.

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Fast chemical imaging at high spatial resolution by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. **Analytical Chemistry, 85**, 10107–10116.

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## Figure Captions

**Figure 1.** Schematic diagram of the MP-AES waveguide, with axial magnetic excitation and radial electric field.

**Figure 2.** Examples of XRF-based devices that have come onto the market in recent years: (A) microXRF (EDAX Eagle III) with computers. (B) Handheld XRF (Niton XL3t GOLDD+) with reference materials.

**Figure 3.** Schematic representation of a Faraday cup detection system. The Faraday cup is connected to electrical ground by an amplifier that is equipped with a high value resistor (commonly 10¹¹ or 10¹² Ω). The amplified signal in converted to volts by a voltage-to-frequency converter. Figure adapted from Koornneef *et al.* 2013.

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**Figure 4.** Top panel: example of FC/FC runs from a single session in which little or no trend in $ ^{34}S/$$^{32}S $ was observed over the course of minute-long pyrite analyses. Middle panel: example for a different analytical session in which a clear trend is seen in the measured $ ^{34}S/$$^{32}S $, note the differences in the slopes between the pyrite (Py) and pyrrhotite (Po) analyses. For both top and middle panels the Y-axis is‰ change from the first cycle in the individual run. Bottom panel: example of $ \delta^{34}S $ vs. $ \Delta^{36}S $ for a variety of Archaean pyrite samples investigated by Whitehouse (2013), showing that the dispersion in the data for both systems well exceeds the analytical uncertainty. Crosses indicate 2s uncertainty estimates. MDF = mass dependent fractionation line. All panels courtesy of M. Whitehouse.

**Figure 5.** (A) Internal view of the vacuum chamber of the Dual Beam machine®, installed at the GFZ-Potsdam, which is typical for such instrumentation. (B) 3D reconstruction showing pore space, quartz, calcite and organic matter of a sample of Opalinus Clay analysed via FIB nanotomography. Image courtesy L. Keller (Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland), also published in Keller *et al.* (2013).

**Figure 6.** (A) General view of the cryo-SEM-EBSD system Zeiss Sigma VP FEG, including the nitrogen glove box, operating at the Otago Centre of Electron Microscopy (University of Otago, New Zealand). (B) EBSD orientation map on experimentally deformed standard ice, axial load was vertical and parallel to [0001] in the inverse pole figure colour code. Images A and B courtesy of Prof. D. Prior at University of Otago, New Zealand. (C) Schematic illustration a SEM chamber illustrating the setup for the Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction method using a FIB-prepared TEM foil. Image courtesy of P. Trimby, extracted from Trimby and Cairney (2014). (D) Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction orientation map of a diamond crystal (blue) with an inclusion of pyrrhotite (pink) and a rim of magnetite nanocrystals. Crystallographic orientation map using a step size of 10 nm. Sample courtesy of D. Jacob (Macquarie University), TKD map courtesy P. Trimby, D. Jacob and S. Piazolo at the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis at the University of Sydney.

**Figure 7.** Top: Overview of the LEAP 5000 HR™, latest in the line of commercially available APT instruments from Cameca. Middle: Close up view of a sample array on the left side and the Local Electrode™ for extracting evaporated ions and accelerating them into the APT time of flight spectrometer. Bottom: High resolution SEM image of a sample tip prior to APT analysis – in this particular case NIST SRM 2135c Ni/Cr thin film depth profile standard. All three images courtesy of Cameca.

**Figure 8.** Example of APT determined element distributions in a 4.4 Ga zircon. Left section shows the distributions of lead and yttrium as recorded from the entire ~ 1 µm long sample.

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The middle section shows a 100 nm x 100 nm detail from the same data suite. The right side of the figure is a detail from a single Y-rich cluster (image courtesy J. Valley, see also Valley *et al.* 2014).

<table><caption>Table 1.
Summary of main XRF instruments for geoanalysis</caption><thead><tr><th>Instrument</th><th>Acronym</th><th>Portable</th><th>Detector</th><th>Sample type</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Laboratory X-ray fluorescence</td><td>XRF</td><td>No</td><td>WDS or EDS</td><td>Glass disks, pressed pellets or liquids</td></tr><tr><td>Micro X-ray fluorescence<br>(Figure 2A)</td><td>Micro-XRF</td><td>No</td><td>EDS</td><td>Glass disks, pressed pellets, polished thin-sections and unprepared samples</td></tr><tr><td>Handheld X-ray fluorescence<br>(Figure 2B)</td><td>HHXRF</td><td>Yes</td><td>EDS</td><td>Glass disks, pressed pellets and unprepared samples</td></tr><tr><td>Portable X-ray fluorescence</td><td>PXRF</td><td>Yes</td><td>EDS</td><td>Glass disks, pressed pellets and unprepared samples</td></tr><tr><td>X-ray fluorescence core scanner</td><td></td><td>No</td><td>EDS</td><td>Split core of rock or unconsolidated sediments</td></tr><tr><td>Scanning electron microscope attachment</td><td>SEM</td><td>No</td><td>EDS or WDS</td><td>Polished thin sections, grain mounts,</td></tr><tr><td>Electron probe micro-analysis</td><td>EPMA</td><td>No</td><td>WDS or EDS</td><td>Polished thin sections or grain mounts</td></tr></tbody></table>
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