1. Micro-XRF Studies of sediment cores: A perspective on capability and application in the environmental sciences

Rothwell RG, Croudace, IW

Part 1 - Marine studies

2. Twenty years of XRF core scanning marine sediments: what do geochemical proxies tell us?

Rothwell G, Croudace IW

3. Optimization of ITRAX core scanner measurement conditions for sediments from submarine mud volcanoes

Rodríguez-Germade I, Rubio B, Rey D, Vilas F, López-Rodríguez C, Comas M, & Martínez-Ruiz, F

4. Use of calibrated ITRAX data in determining turbidite geochemistry and provenance in Agadir Basin, Northwest African passive margin

Hunt JE, Croudace IW, MacLachlan S

5. Identification, correlation and origin of multistage landslide events in volcaniclastic turbidites in the Moroccan Turbidite System

Hunt JE, Wynn RB, Croudace IW

6. An empirical assessment of variable water content and grain size on X-ray fluorescence core-scanning measurements of deep-sea sediments

MacLachlan SE, Hunt JE, Croudace IW

Part 2 - Lake and river studies

7. Micro-XRF core scanning in palaeolimnology: recent developments

Davies SJ, Lamb HF, Roberts S

8. Micro-XRF applications in fluvial sedimentary environments of Britain and Ireland: progress and prospects

Turner JN, Jones AF, Brewer PA, Macklin MG, Rassner SM

9. Estimation of biogenic silica concentrations using scanning XRF: Insights from studies of Lake Malawi sediments

Brown ET

10. Optimization of Itrax core scanner protocols for the micro X-ray fluorescence analysis of finely laminated sediment: a case study of lacustrine varved sediment from the High Arctic

Cuven S, Francus P, Crémer JF, Bérubé F

11. Investigating the use of scanning X-ray fluorescence to locate cryptotephra in minerogenic lacustrine sediment: experimental results

Balascio NL, Francus P, Bradley RS, Schupack BB, Miller GH, Kvisvik BC, Bakke J, Thordarson T

12. Combined micro-XRF and microfacies techniques for lake sediment analyses

Dulski P, Brauer A, Mangili C

13. Experiences with XRF-scanning of long sediment records

Ohlendorf C, Wennrich V, Enters D

14. Approaches to water content correction and calibration for μXRF core scanning: comparing X-ray scattering with simple regression of elemental concentrations

Boyle JF, Chiverrell RC, Schillereff D

Part 3 - Environmental geochemistry and forensic applications

15. X-ray core scanners as an environmental forensics tool: a case study of polluted harbour sediment (Augusta Bay, Sicily)

Croudace IW, Romano E, Antonella A, Bergamin L, Rothwell G

16. Modern pollution signals in sediments from Windermere, NW England, determined by micro-XRF and lead isotope analysis

Miller H, Croudace IW, Bull JM, Cotterill CJ, Dix JK, Taylor RN

17. ITRAX core scanner capabilities combined with other geochemical and radiochemical techniques to evaluate environmental changes in a local catchment, South Sydney, NSW, Australia

Gadd P, Heijnis H, Chagué-Goff C, Zawadzki A, Fierro D, Atahan P, Croudace IW, Goralewski J

Part 4 - Technological aspects

18. A geochemical approach to improve radiocarbon-based age-depth models in non-laminated sediment series

Arnaud F, Révillon S

19. Limited influence of sediment grain-size on elemental XRF core scanner measurements

Bertrand S, Hughen K, Giosan L

20. Standardisation and calibration of X-radiographs acquired
About the Author:

Ian Croudace is a geochemist with more than 40 years research experience, holds an academic position at the University of Southampton (Ocean and Earth Science) and is Director of GAU-Radioanalytical. He is a specialist in several branches of analytical geochemistry including X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, gamma ray spectrometry and radioanalytical chemistry and has published more than 135 papers in the international geochemical and chemical literature. During his career he has supervised 26 PhD students on a variety of geochemical topics. He has also co-developed an industry standard instrument for extracting tritium and C-14 from nuclear and related materials. With NOC colleague Guy Rothwell in 2000 he conceived the fundamental design of what became the prototype Itrax X-ray corescanner. He jointly obtained development funding, identified and commissioned the analytical partner (Cox Analytical) and contributed to the realisation of the first Itrax core scanner that emerged in 2003.

Guy Rothwell is a marine sedimentologist and Curator of the British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF), the UK's national deep-sea core repository, located at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He has participated in over 25 research cruises including two legs of the Ocean Drilling Program. He and colleague Ian Croudace conceived of and secured the funds to realise the prototype Itrax core scanner and contributed to its design. He is author of Minerals and Mineraloids in Marine Sediments (Elsevier Applied Science, 1989) and editor of New Techniques in Sediment Core Analysis (Geological Society of London Special Publication, 2006).