Department of Mineralogy

 

Infrastructure
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Clean air chemical laboratory

Thermal Ionization mass spectrometry – TRITON

Thermal Ionization mass spectrometry – MAT262

Noble Gas mass spectrometry – ARGUS

Noble Gas mass spectrometry – NOBLESSE

Fission Track dating laboratory

Raman microspectrometry laboratory

Fluid inclusion microthermometry laboratory

Particle characterization laboratory

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics laboratory

X-ray diffractometry

Thin and polished sectioning laboratory

XRF preparation

Mineral separation facilities

ICP-MS

UNIL

 

Fission Track dating laboratory

Autoscan designed fission-track data acquisition facility based around a state-of-the-art Zeiss Axio-imager Z1M optical microscope and ultra-high precision translation stage, with automated data collection software.

Fission Track dating laboratory

Contact: Dr Richard Spikings, Tel. +41 22 379 31 76, richard.spikings@unige.ch