| Acronym | Meaning |
| SRP | Soluble Reactive Phosphorus |
| EAR | European Asthenospheric Reservoir (mantle Source For Tertiary-Quaternary Volcanism) |
| CCM | Channeling Contrast Microscopy |
| NNDO | Neglect Of Nonbonded Differential Overlap |
| RNRA | Resonant Nuclear Reaction Analysis |
| CFE | Coherent Forward Emission |
| COHMAP | Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project |
| DZHD | Double-zeta Huzinaga-Dunning (wave Functions) |
| BCS | Bragg Crystal Spectrometer |
| TPOT | Two-parameter Omega Technique |