Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Estimating laser pit depth using the "Beam_Seconds" channel

We've had a few questions regarding how Iolite estimates down-hole fractionation (in the U-Pb DRS), and several people have also had problems reducing their data because the algorithms didn't work as they should.
So, I figured it might be useful to describe a bit about how the depth is estimated, and more practically to explain how you can tinker with it if you find that the default settings aren't working for you...