{"id":207,"date":"2014-07-31T12:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T12:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/07\/31\/31st-july-2014-sol-705\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","slug":"31st-july-2014-sol-705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/07\/31\/31st-july-2014-sol-705\/","title":{"rendered":"31st July 2014 Sol 705"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been analysing the Windjana drill tailings for over 2 months now and have just dumped the drill tailings.<\/p>\n<p>The long and repeat analyses by SAM and CheMin allowed us to look at the effects of degassing of samples over time (e.g. the\u00a0noble gas argon, used in K-Ar dating) and to get the best XRD analyses.\u00a0 Exposing the drilled\u00a0powder\u00a0samples to the X-ray source over several occasions allows us to track any potential\u00a0changes e.g. in hydration state of the tailings and to get better &#8216;counting statitics&#8217; from which mineral abundances are determined.\u00a0 For that we fit the position and shape of the peaks to standard spectra here on Earth using what is called the Rietveld Method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been analysing the Windjana drill tailings for over 2 months now and have just dumped the drill tailings. The long and repeat analyses by SAM and CheMin allowed us to look at the effects of degassing of samples over time (e.g. the\u00a0noble gas argon, used in K-Ar dating) and to get the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}