Assitant-Professor, Université Clermont Auvergne
Petrology team
Phone: +33.4.73.40.55.84
Email : muriel.laubier@uca.fr

French webpage

  • Research interests :

    • Geochemistry of primitive melt inclusions
    • Mantle redox
    • Mantle melting, primary melt transport and mixing
    • Trace element mineral/melt partitioning

    Scientific and administrative responsibilities :

    • Since 2018 : in charge of the Licence degree (head tutor of undergraduate studies) in the Earth science department
    • Reviewer for Contrib. Mineral. and Petrology, Journal of Petrology, Chemical Geology, Marine Geology
    • Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences (Etats-Unis)

    Analytical and technical methods  :

    Tools : experimental petrology (piston-cylinder, 1 atm gaz-mixing furnace, internally heated pressure vessel, melt inclusion heating stage), in-situ analysis (electron microprobe, SEM, LA-ICP-MS, SIMS, μXANES), geochemical modeling, petrography.

    Teaching activities:

    • Since 2013 : Institution : Earth Science Department, Université Clermont Auvergne, France

    Courses : Intro to geosciences – Magmatic and metamorphic petrology – Optical microscope – Scientific english – Professional project- Field trips.
    Level : Licence & Masters in Earth Sciences, Licence in Biology

    • 2009 ; 2012-2013 : Institution : Earth and Planetary Science Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Courses : The Fluid Earth, Oceans and Atmosphere – Natural disasters – Igneous Petrology.
    Level : Undergraduates

    Courses : Cartography – Optical microscope – Cristallography – Math-Computer software – Scientific reasoning – Field trips.
    Level : Licence Sciences de la Terre, Licence SVT

  • Publications :

    • Laubier, M., Grove, T.L., Langmuir, C.H.,Trace element mineral/melt partitioning for basaltic and basaltic andesitic melts: an experimental and Laser ICP-MS study with application to the oxidation state of mantle source regions, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 392, 265-278, 2014.
    • Gale, A., Laubier, M., Escrig, S., Langmuir, C.H., Constraints on Melting Processes and Plume-Ridge Interaction from Comprehensive Study of the FAMOUS and North Famous Segments, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 365, 209-220, 2013.
    • Laubier, M., Gale, A. & Langmuir, C.H., Melting and crustal processes at the FAMOUS segment (Mid-Atlantic ridge): new insights from olivine-hosted melt inclusions from multiple samples, Pet. 53, 665-692, 2012.
    • Le Voyer, M., Rose-Koga, E. F., Laubier, M. & Schiano, P., Petrogenesis of arc lavas from the Rucu Pichincha and Pan de Azucar volcanoes (Ecuadorian arc): Major, trace element, and boron isotope evidences from olivine-hosted melt inclusions, Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q12027, 2008.
    • Laubier, M., Schiano, P., Doucelance, R., Ottolini, L. & Laporte, D., Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions and Melting Processes beneath the FAMOUS Zone (Mid-Atlantic Ridge), Chem. Geol., vol. 240, p. 129-150, 2007.

    [Publications nom= »Laubier » prenom= »Muriel »]