Norman Charnley

Research Associate

A member of the departmental research support staff, my interests lie in the field of microbeam chemical analysis. I am responsible for all aspects of running the department's electron microprobe and scanning electron microscopes, providing an imaging and analytical facility for postgraduate students and academic staff. I am also half of the "scrapheap challenge" team working on resurrecting a VG MicroSims ion microprobe.

More details of the electron beam instruments can be found here.

Waters, D.J. and Charnley, N.R., 2002, Local equilibrium in polymetamorphic gneiss and the titanium substitution in biotite. American Mineralogist, v.87, pp.383-396.

Agrell, S.O., Charnley, N.R. and Chinner, G.A., 1998, Phosphoran olivine from Pine Canyon, Piute Co., Utah. Mineralogical Magazine, v.62, pp.265-269.

Charnley, N.R. and Potts, P.J., 1997, Transmission of X-rays from an extended X-ray source through parallel-bore glass capillary waveguides: implications for the design of a laboratory X-ray microprobe. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, v.12, pp. 761-767.

Pimentel, M.M. and Charnley, N.R., 1991, Intracrustal REE fractionation and implications for Sm-Nd model age calculations in late-stage granitic rocks - an example from central Brazil. Chemical Geology, v.86, pp.123-138.