Standards available at SwissSIMS

Below is a list of reference materials available in our lab. Please note that we are open to standard development for isotopic and trace element analyses on minerals and glasses of geological interest. Please contact us if there is no reference material for the SIMS analysis you are planning to do in the list below.

Glasses:

  • International: NIST, MPI-DING, BHVO, BIR, BCR (trace elements, Li, B, O, Si, Fe isotopes)
  • In house: 5 basaltic glasses (d18O, d37Cl; 26Mg/26Al, 26Mg/24Mg), different glasses for water and dD

Note that glasses could be used as trace elements standards for some minerals (Trace element analyses are only performed if the project cannot be done by LA-ICP-MS).

Minerals:

  • Apatite (d34S, d37Cl, dD, volatiles)
  • Quartz (d18O, d30Si, trace elements)
  • Biotite (d18O, Cl, F, H2O)
  • Micas (d18O)
  • Garnet (d18O, d7Li)
  • Feldspars (d18O)
  • Albite (d18O, d30Si)
  • Pyroxene (d7Li¸ low and high Ca- pyroxene: 26Mg/26Al, 26Mg/24Mg)
  • Tourmaline (d18O; d11B)
  • Graphite (d13C)
  • Carbonate: dolomite, calcite, siderite (d13C, d18O, and d56Fe for siderite only)
  • Sulfide (d34S, d56Fe)
  • Olivine (d18O: Fo 74 – 98.5, d56Fe: ~Fo90; 26Mg/26Al, 26Mg/24Mg: Fo 76 – 99)
  • Monazite (except Ca-rich; d18O, U-Pb dating)
  • Zircon (d18O, U-Pb dating)