Research Projects
• "Probing the lithosphere and geochemical boundaries in the pre-Mesozoic crust of Peru through geochronology and isotope geochemistry of Paleozoic to Tertiary magmatic rocks." Project funded by the Swiss Science Foundation. More information (pdf, 46Kb).
• Precise and accurate dating of periods of biotic crisis and recovery in the Earth's history using zircon U-Pb dating of volcanic ash beds. Project funded by Swiss Science Foundation. Timescale summary.
• "Magmas, ore deposits and geodynamic evolution at a convergent margin: the case of Ecuador." Project funded by the Swiss Science Foundation. More information (pdf, 48Kb).
• "Thermochronology and tectonics of the Northern Andes (Colombia and Ecuador)." Project funded by the Swiss Science Foundation.
1. Projects in Ecuador and Colombia (file attached).
2. Projects in Venezuela (the Maracaibo Triangular Block) (file attached).• "GTSnext: Towards the next generation of the Geological Time Scale for the last 100 million years - the European contribution to EARTHTIME." Project funded by the FP7 program of the European Community. For more information see http://earthtime-eu.eu/earthtime/?page_id=61
• "Adamello 4-D: An integrated approach to understand crustal growth processes from a geodynamical, petrological and isotope geochemical perspective." Project funded by Swiss Science Foundation and CRUS. For more information see http://www.unil.ch/img/page72459_en.html
• Experimental analyssis of the usefulness of multi-domian diffusion of argon in feldspars for thermal history analysis (file attached)
