Laboratories
Optical cathodoluminescence: Cathodoluminescence microscopy is used to highlight features that cannot be observed using standard transmitted or reflected light …
Digital microscopy: The digital microscopy lab contains three polarizing microscopes, all equipped with motorized stages, a binocular and a MicroDrill station. Each …
Scanning electron microscopy: Two scanning electron microscopes are currently available in our institute: a CamScan MV2300 (installed in 2003) and a Tescan Mira …
Electron probe microanalyzer: The microprobe is equipped with 5 WDS spectrometers with LIF, PET, TAP, LDE1 and LDE2 crystals including two high ...
X-ray micro-computed tomography: X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a rapidly evolving technique originally developed in medicine for visualization of soft-tissues …
X-ray diffraction: The X-ray diffraction lab is equipped with an ARL Thermo X'tra powder diffractometer. The instrument enables the characterization of materials …
Laser ablation-ICP-MS: Mass-spectrometry with inductively coupled plasma ion source is widely applied for the determination of elemental composition and isotope ...
Ion probe: The IMS 1280-HR is the latest ion microprobe manufactured by CAMECA. A wide range of elements (from H to Pb) could be obtained with an unequalled …
Stable isotope lab: Stable isotope geochemistry is one of the most powerful techniques not only to study the orgin and the composition of fluids and gas, and …
Organic geochemistry lab: This lab provides an array of analytical procedures related to the analysis of water and soils, in conjuction with geochemical …
Sediment geochemistry lab: Lab devoted to the chemical analysis of sediments and soils, with in particular the measurement of their C, H, N, S and P contents …
Biogeosciences lab: This lab enables the characterization of organic and inorganic compounds from soil samples using the following techniques: (1) Fourier transform …
Geographic information systems: The GIS lab is dedicated to the analysis of geographical data. The facilities include 8 computers equipped with GIS softwares, a …
Center of mineral analysis: The Center of mineral analysis (CAM) is a service and research unit administratively associated with the Institute of Earth Sciences (Faculty …
Hydrothermal lab: The hydrothermal equipment consists of 10 vertical cold-seal pressure vessels (bombs) with split tube furnaces. The bomb consists of a cooled …
Clean lab: In this work area the air quality, temperature and humidity are highly regulated to avoid sample contamination. The clean lab is mainly used for …
Sedimentary lab: The sedimentary lab is dedicated to the separation and the preparation of microfossils from sedimentary rock samples. This step is necessary …
HF lab: Because of its ability to dissolve oxides, hydrofluoric acid (HF) is commonly used for separating microfossils from hand specimens. The use of this very corrosive …
Thin section lab: The thin section lab is aimed at preparing thin sections of rocks and minerals. The hand specimens are first sawed and grinded. Successive steps of …
