Excess Uncertainty Explorer tool

📅 Sep 18, 2023 · ☕ 10 min read · ✍️ Bence

The main error propagation algorithm in iolite was first published by Paton et al. (2010). Its purpose is to estimate the additional uncertainty to be added to the internal uncertainty calculated by iolite and is most often used in U-Pb studies.

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An Explanation of the Sr Isotopes (Universal) DRS

📅 Oct 2, 2022 · ☕ 22 min read · ✍️ Bence Paul

NOTE: The following is a guest post by Graham Hagen-Peter (even though I -Bence- am listed as the author, it is Graham’s work; I am just posting it here).

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How to download python scripts from GitHub

📅 Sep 28, 2022 · ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ Bence

The iolite GitHub repository contains many examples of additional modules for iolite written in python. It’s not always obvious how to download and use these files, so here’s a quick rundown of the process.

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Filling in the blanks (in imaging)

📅 Sep 28, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Joe

Sometimes when imaging we purposely leave space between spots to save time or maybe there is a gap in your image from an instrument glitch. In either case, the cell space image will contain regions of null data, and often we would like to replace those missing parts to make a better looking image.

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Selection refinement

📅 Sep 15, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Joe

Laser logs and mass spec sample metadata speed up the process of creating selections in iolite considerably. However, sometimes we want to further refine those selections for a variety of reasons.

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