I haven't had time to fully edit this in years. No guarantees on link freshness, I think most of them are still there.

The Gatan web page on scanned cathodoluminescence.

Cathodoluminescence images of cataclastic fault rock evolution from Dr. Geoffrey E. Lloyd at Leeds University (UK), a.k.a. "the competition".

The Society for Luminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy (SLMS)

An excellent image of a zircon under CL from Rice University. If you look at it you might consider whether the light-colored planar features are "healed" fractures.

Research report from Arizona State University on the uses of Scanned CL: CAN PHOTO- AND CATHODOLUMINESCENCE BE REGARDED AS COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES?

Cathodoluminescence Investigation of the Evolution of Zircon Crystal Shapes Applied to Supplement Geochemical Studies

Microscopy and Analysis Magazine WWW site

Scanned Cathodoluminescence of Vein Quartz by Sarah Penniston-Dorland, The Johns Hopkins University.

Frac-City

This is probably a copyright violation, but someone else has put up some sandstone CL images from-- Luminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy : Qualitative and Quantitative Applications (Charles E. Barker and Otto C. Kopp, Editors)

Charles Onasch, Bowling Green State University, has posted some CL images, sandstones are at the bottom.

UTDOGS Microbeam page

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