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PREFACE

¹ Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE and Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
² Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5, Canada
³ Institut Néel, CNRS, 25 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

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Progress in the Earth sciences and mineralogy in particular is, and has always been, intimately linked to the development of powerful analytical techniques. Today, to an ever-increasing extent, the study of the physical and chemical properties of Earth and planetary materials requires the availability of large-scale facilities that involve probing particles with radiation of specific characteristics, such as high brilliance. During this decade the European synchrotron landscape is undergoing significant changes. New, national, large-scale facilities are opening for users at many locations around Europe: e.g. in the UK, Diamond Light Source opened at the beginning . . . [Full Text of this Article]