The Magmas and Volcanoes laboratory has one of the most complete textural analysis laboratories for volcanic products. This theme benefits from an OPGC observation service: DynVolc. Resp.: Gurioli Lucia, Le Pennec Jean-Luc, Druitt Tim.
Piston-cylinder presses are high-pressure high-temperature solid media devices that can reach temperatures up to 2300 °C at pressures up to 4 GPa. The four piston-cylinders at LMV are routinely setup for temperatures up to 1600 °C at the moment. Mise à jour : Etienne Médard
Inductively Coupled Plasma Source Spectrometry associated with an in-situ laser ablation sampling device. Instruments: ICP-MS Thermo Element XR spectrometer with magnetic sector and able to operate at low, medium or high mass resolution. This instrument is equipped with a Faraday cage allowing the collection of signals over 12 orders of magnitude. Agilent 7500 quadrupole ICP-MS…
The LMV now has an analytical facility – unique in France – dedicated to the measurement by counting or nuclear spectrometry of all the radioactive isotopes of the natural chains of 238U and 232Th. By combining a alpha spectrometry, gamma spectrometry, and global alpha-beta counting, all the isotopes, from the shortest to the longest periods,…