Synchrotron X-ray radiation and the African earth sciences: A critical review

Heyden, Bjorn P. von der; Benoît, Julien; Fernández, Vincent; Roychoudhury, Alakendra N.

doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.104012

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“…The heritage sciences, especially palaeontology, have been a niche research area for Africa. A recent review (von der Heyden et al, 2020) has chronicled a footprint in Africa of 19 countries with some 80 publications. This is likely to be a conservative estimate.…”

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“…Some highlights from this field would be the phase-contrast tomographic study of the Australopithecus sediba MH1 cranium which revealed the shape of the endocranium cavity (Carlson et al, 2011), and a similar study of an early triassic fossilized burrow cast which very unusually contained an injured temnospondyl amphibian sheltering with an aestivating therapsid (Fernandez et al, 2013). The same review also surveys synchrotron studies on African geological and environmental geochemistry sample material and finds a footprint in 12 African countries with more than twice this amount of papers (von der Heyden et al, 2020). These are dominated by the various spectroscopies, but there are also diffraction techniques and imaging.…”

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The African Light Source: history, context and future

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Dollman,

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J Synchrotron Radiat

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The African Light Source (AfLS) project is now almost eight years old. This article assesses the history, current context and future of the project. There is by now considerable momentum in building the user community, including deep training, facilitating access to current facilities, growing the scientific output, scientific networks and growing the local laboratory-scale research infrastructure. The Conceptual Design Report for the AfLS is in its final editing stages. This document specifies the socio-economic and scientific rationales and the technical aspects amongst others. The AfLS is supported by many national and Pan-African scientific professional bodies and voluntary associates across many scientific disciplines, and there are stakeholders throughout the continent and beyond. The current roadmap phases have expanded to include national and Pan-African level conversations with policy makers through new Strategic Task Force groups. The document summarizes this progress and discusses the future of the project.

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