OVERVIEW
Acronym
ENVITOP-PTAPartner 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)