Plateforme de datation et de traçage isotopique pour les géosciences de l'environnement

OVERVIEW
Acronym ENVITOP-PTA
Partner institution

Aix-Marseille Université





Description

ENVITOP is a mass spectrometry facility dedicated to the analyses of radiogenic and non traditional isotopes used to characterize and date geological and environmental processes.

SCIENTIFIC DOMAIN
Scientific domain

PE10_12 - Sedimentology, soil science, palaeontology, earth evolution - Earth System Science





 

SH6_3 - General archaeology, archaeometry, landscape archaeology - The Study of the Human Past





 

LS8_15 - Theoretical developments and modelling in environmental biology, ecology, evolution - Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution





Keywords

Geochemistry





 

geochronology





 

isotopes





INFRASTRUCTURE
Remote access details

ENVITOP is open to scientific communities of both the academic and private sectors, upon request.

AMENITIES
Equipment

The ENVITOP services include: 

  • isotopic tracing of metallic sources and pollution: lead, copper, zinc, iron, strontium, uranium, neodymium, 
  • U-Pb and U-Th dating of carbonates at different spatial scales (from centimeters to ten micrometers)