@XMapTools

Powerful compositional map processor that gives you the numerical tools you need to study rocks at the micron scale

 Berne, Switzerland
xmaptools.ch
Joined April 2017
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We've released #XMapTools 4.3, which includes several improvements for reducing LA-ICPMS data. See what is new at xmaptools.ch/release-4-3/ and follow @XMapTools – at Berne, Switzerland
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This week we had the XMapTools course at the University of Brasília! It was a great time and I'm always happy to discuss petrology using @XMapTools and I'm already looking forward to the next one at @ufmg in 2024 🤍 – at Brasília, Brazil
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I have published the first tutorial for XMapTools 4.1 on the resources website resources.xmaptools.ch/tutor… It will guide you through the classification, standardization and visualisation of EPMA data using maps from Duesterhoeft & Lanari (2021), JMG 38, 527-55 @XMapTools #tutorial
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Playing in @XMapTools with a favourite sample on #ThinSectionThursday. Looking at the quant EDS data, importing into XMT and then calculating mineral formula. Last map is the plag An component, with alternate comps & zoning when included in garnet!🤩 #geology #rocks #ZeissNatRes
Petrographic thin section of granulite metagabbro from the Lewisian Complex in north west Scotland

ALT Petrographic thin section of granulite metagabbro from the Lewisian Complex in north west Scotland

Automated mineralogy phase map of the same metagabbro from ZEISS Mineralogic

ALT Automated mineralogy phase map of the same metagabbro from ZEISS Mineralogic

Segmented phase map of the metagabbro sample using EDS data in XMapTools

ALT Segmented phase map of the metagabbro sample using EDS data in XMapTools

Image showing the calculated anorthite component in plagioclase for the metagabbro.

ALT Image showing the calculated anorthite component in plagioclase for the metagabbro.

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Si in white mica with XMapTools 😬
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Falling in love with garnets ❤️ #XMapTools #garnet #petrology
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For anyone working with element maps, check out the new and improved version of @XMapTools youtu.be/qmMKzRvgkuU
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These X-ray maps show an interesting feature: symplectites around garnet, formed of plagioclase (XAn = 99) and white mica. Have you ever seen such a mineral assemblage for symplectites? The maps were obtained with EPMA and explored with @XMapTools.
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Anthony@Anthnyy11 Feb 2021
Garnets also show compositional zoning, like this one right here of a nice spiral-like garnet from a metapelite. Image processed using @XMapTools
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This week @GeoDrB 🎙has been cooking some UHT chats 🔥🔥with @petrochronics member @MahyraT chatting about her research, her love for #minerals such as this beauty, and teaching amazing tools such as @XMapTools to her students🤩 🎧Tune-in travelinggeologist.com/podca…
vitorbarrote@GeoDrB13 May 2021
Things heat up a bit in the latest episode of #GneissChats. Me and @silvia_volante talked with Prof. Mahyra Tedeschi about UHT metamorphism. We also mapped the inside of her mind🧠w/ a fun game of Mind Speleology Listen now on all podcast platforms or 🎧 travelinggeologist.com/podca…
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UT Ebeam Lab@EbeamUt4 May 2021
Replying to @ElizabethCatlos @txgeosciences @MSG_1981 @MicroscopyTexas @MinSocAm @XMapTools
You know, I've been meaning to play around with XMapTools for a while now, and this was the perfect excuse to start. I'm inclined to agree that the subtle Ca zonation near the edges is much more visible! The bright inclusions sort of vanish, but they aren't the point.
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Replying to @Anthnyy @MSG_1981 @XMapTools
Coincidently, I processed a garnet image using XmapTools, to show garnet zoning be affected by grain boundary diffusion due to breakdown of amphibole inclusion.
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Anthony@Anthnyy26 Nov 2020
Garnet zonning affected by fluid infiltration. Sample from the Isua Supracrustal belt. Image processed with @XMapTools (Ca-rich -red- phases are plagioclase) #ThinSectionThursday
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Anthony@Anthnyy17 Sep 2020
phase map processed with @XMapTools of a meta-felsic volcanic rock from the Isua supracrustal belt. Very useful to see microstructures. #ThinSectionThursday
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Grossular X-ray map showing multiple growth zones in a garnet porphyroblast from an eclogite. Contribution by the researchers Mahyra Tedeschi from @ufmg and Carlos Ganade @cprm. How do you interpret the growth history of this porphyroblast? #ThinSectionThursday #XMapTools
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Exactly 4 years ago I attended the first #BingoAntidote course! Today we had an amazing talk from @PierreLanari about the new BingoAntidote in our @XMapTools virtual course @ufmg!
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Special #thinsectionthursday edition of our #XMapTools BR course at #ufmg 💻 Al203 (wt%) and phase map of a Grt-Cpx amphibolite from the Southern Brasilia orogen 🔬resorbed Grt surrounded by a composite corona (Amp+Pl) with a matrix with symplectite (Cpx+Amp+Pl+Qz) #petrochronics
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I have released a tutorial on how to Import BSE Images in #XMapTools with #Img2Txt and #StackMaps. You can combine maps acquired with different instruments using these add-ons! I also show how to download them using the extension manager @XMapTools youtu.be/8kbtjd7-S0U

[Discontinued] Tutorial – Add-ons & Importing Images in XMapTools 3.4

In this tutorial, we show how to install add-ons in XMapTools using...

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Last week we had a very productive XMapTools’ course in the UFMG’s post-graduation course. It was really great to share @XMapTools with this very motivated team, full of #petrochronicslovers
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Great to be back in the laser lab today...so of course I tried to fit as many garnets as possible onto the screens at once. Does that count as #hygge?
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