Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology

Welcome! 

To Ilya Bindeman, who will stay with us as a visiting professor until June 2019.

To Clémentine Antoine, who started a PhD on January 1, 2019.

To Fabio Messori, who started his PhD on February 1, 2019.

Fission Track Lab: Our fission track laboratory is back to routine operation. Congratulations to Diego Villagomez for this success!

Argon Laboratory: After 6 months of agony, our new Thermo Argus VI line is measuring first UV-laser in situ Ar-Ar ages on K-feldspar megacrysts. Next week we will see first results from IR-laser step heating!

U-Pb geochronology

High-precision U-Pb dating of accessory minerals to resolve timescales of geological processes

Isotopic tracing

Tracing of sources and processes in various environments using radiogenic and heavy stable isotopes

Thermochronology

Extracting t-T histories using U-Pb, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and fission track techniques to solve various structural and tectonic questions

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