Monocle

This is the new home of Monocle, a laser ablation ICP-MS map interrogation add-on for iolite 2/3 (www.iolite-software.com) written as a set of Igor Pro procedures.

Requirements

1. Igor Pro 6 or 7.
2. Iolite 2.5 (i.e. freeware version) or 3+ (i.e. commercial version).

Installation

1. Copy Monocle.ipf to iolite's "Add ons" folder.
2. Restart iolite.

Known problems

1. Integration with iolite's CellSpace is has a hard-coded correction to compensate for the excessive number of samples per region of interest. Hope to fix this soon.

References

Petrus, J. A., Chew, D. M., Leybourne, M. I., & Kamber, B. S. (2017). A new approach to laser-ablation inductively-coupled-plasma mass-spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) using the flexible map interrogation tool ‘Monocle’. Chemical Geology, 463, 76-93.

See also,

Paton, C., Woodhead, J. D., Hellstrom, J. C., Hergt, J. M., Greig, A., & Maas, R. (2010). Improved laser ablation U‐Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11(3). Chicago

Paton, C., Hellstrom, J., Paul, B., Woodhead, J., & Hergt, J. (2011). Iolite: Freeware for the visualisation and processing of mass spectrometric data. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 26(12), 2508-2518.

Chew, D. M., Petrus, J. A., Kenny, G. G., & McEvoy, N. (2017). Rapid high-resolution U–Pb LA-Q-ICPMS age mapping of zircon. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 32(2), 262-276.