New X-ray Fluorescence Core Scanner Reveals Clues To Earth's Past Climate And History

摘要

Fans of the Star Trek science fiction series will remember the "tricorder," an all-purpose sensor that Kirk, Spock, and McCoy waved over objects, from rocks and spaceships to alien life forms, to determine what they were made of.rn"We now have our own version of the tricorder," said Liviu Giosan, a coastal geologist who was instrumental in acquiring and setting up an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core scanner at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. It is the first of its kind in the United States.