Volcanic glass under fire - a comparison of three complementary analytical methods

Funding

The authors gratefully acknowledge Mrs. Michaela Foster for her support during the NAA sample preparation, Mr. Kiraly for his support during EPMA measurements and the HZDR IBA-crew and the reactor-crew of the Atominstitut for essential contribution to the IBA and NAA experiments. This work was supported by the European Community as an Integrating Activity 'Support of Public and Industrial Research Using Ion Beam Technology (SPIRIT)' under TAN no. 058. NAA at the Atominstitut and LA-ICP-MS measurements at the University of Aberystwyth were carried out in the framework of the special research program 'The Synchronization of Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd Millenium BC (SCIEM 2000)', initiated by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.