Using a Cameca NanoSIMS 50L multicollector ion
microprobe at Carnegie, the researchers measured the amount of deuterium in the samples compared to the amount of regular hydrogen.
SHRIMP's construction was originally advocated in 1973 by Bill Compston, a geochemist
at the ANU, on the grounds that ion
microprobes then commercially available were insufficiently sensitive for such work.
Single - grain major and minor element compositions were measured using electron
microprobe wavelength dispersive spectrometry
at the University of Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, using a Jeol JXA8600 electron
microprobe, in wavelength dispersive mode, with 15 - keV accelerating voltage, 6 - nA beam current, and 10 - μm defocused beam.