Ceramics: Contribution of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) to the Study of Crystal Chemistry of MICA Minerals

In the present study, it has been highlighted that SIMS data in association with high - quality structural data and information derived from other complementary techniques allows the crystal chemical properties of " diffi cult " mineral phases to be successfully established. Moreover, a SIMS study of inhomogeneous samples at the micrometer scale can provide insightful relationships between their crystal chemistry and the volcanological processes to which they have partaken