Low-cost automatic geochemical scanning of sediment cores using pXRF, XZ-axial translation stages, and the PyCoreX software
Stoil Chapkanski·Dominique Todisco·Mallaury Robert·Léa Mairaville·Olivier Gillet·Zoé Sicard-Delage·Damase Mouralis
Current environmental changes are increasing the demand for analytical tools and procedures that are affordable, reliable, and time-efficient for use in various academic research projects as well as civil engineering applications. In this context, sediments are a major source of subsurface environmental data, and the accelerating growth of sediment core libraries has motivated the use of fast, low-cost, and quasi-continuous geochemical investigations of sediment sequences. Portable handheld X-ra