The International Research and Review Journal for Microscopy Incorporating Micron and Microscopica Acta and Electron Microscopy Reviews
The aims of MICRON are to serve as an interdisciplinary forum for all work which involves the design, application, practice or theory of microscopy and microanalysis. The journal will also publish papers and reports on optical and electron beam systems linked to computer image processing and other image analytical methods. The journal is published in English and embraces original research work in Biology, Medicine, Agriculture, Metallurgy and Materials Sciences and Physical Sciences. One of the aims is to publish work within the shortest possible time while maintaining a high standard of refereeing and presentation. Twelve free pages of colour per volume are available to authors of those papers in which colour is essential to convey the full information content of the image. These pages will be decided at the Editors’ discretion.
EDITORS D. J. H. Cockayne (Physical Sciences), Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, U.K. J. R. Harris (Biological Reviews), Institute of Zoology, Müller Weg 6, University of Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany R. F. Egerton (Physical Sciences), Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2J1 B. K. Jap (Biological Sciences), Division of Life Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
EDITORIAL BOARD U. Aebi Maurice E. Muller Institute Basel, Switzerland
A. Holzenburg Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A.
G. Botton McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada
J. L. Hutchison University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
N. D. Browning University of California Davis, CA, U.S.A. J. Carrascosa Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Madrid, Spain G. Cox University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia K. K. Fung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong P. Gualtieri Instituto di Biofisica, Pisa, Italy G. Harauz University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada M. A. Hayat Kean University of New Jersey, Union, NJ, U.S.A. Sir P. Hirsch FRS University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. F. Hofer Technische Universität Graz Graz, Austria
D. A. Muller Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A. L.-M. Peng Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China M. Sarikaya University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Z. Shao University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A. M. Tzaphlidou Ioannina University, Ioannina, Greece Z. L. Wang Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. G. A. Zampighi University of California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. Y. Zhu Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY, U.S.A.
Front cover illustration: (a) Bright-field image of a section of the IDP W7013E-17 containing, e.g. GEMS (glass with embedded metals and sulfides), (Ca,Mg)-silicates and this unusual type of alumosilicate IDP grains (indicated by arrows). (b) Low-magnification Z-contrast micrograph of the alumosilicate particle framed in (a). This type of particle contains vesicles which were locally analyzed by EELS. See p. 371.