Wunderkind

Wunderkind is one of the family of three MacOS programs that can be used for the analysis of data from furnace step-heating ultra-high-vacuum diffusion experiments conducted in conjunction with argon geochronology. Data from the mass spectrometer is loaded in one of a number of XML-tagged data formats from different laboratories around the world, and processed using the eArgon program. Wunderkind allows conjoint inversion of that data to obtain the relevant diffusion parameters. Finally the output (in an XML format intended to become the industry standard) can be taken up by MacArgon, and used to forward model, or to perform a Monte Carlo inversion, in order to obtain pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) histories that are capable of simulating the observed age spectra.