Methods (Instruments)
Dating
U-Pb, Pb-Pb, Rb-Sr (Class 10-100 clean room laboratories, 5-cup MC-TIMS FINNIGAN MAT261)
K-Ar, Ar-Ar (Finnigan MAT GD150, CH5)
14
C (CO
2
gas counting, AMS target preparation)
Dendrochronology
3
H-
3
He, SF
6
(He isotope mass spectrometer (MM3000), SF
6
gas chromatograph)
230
Th/U (MC-TIMS FINNIGAN MAT262 with RPQ)
10
Be (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in collaboration with ETH-Zürich)
Alpha-spectrometry equipment
Low background Gamma Spectrometry
Fission-track and alpha-recoil-track thermochronology
(U-Th)/He thermochronology
Geo-/Cosmochemistry
Paleotemperatures (Noble gas mass spectrometer (VG5400), Rn alpha-detector)
Mantle noble gases (TANDEM (in-house spec), VG 3600)
14
C (CO
2
gas counting, AMS target preparation)
Sr, Pb isotope geochemistry (clean lab, 5-cup MC-TIMS FINNIGAN MAT261)
Stable C, N, S isotopes in soils and sediments (CNS-Elementaranalysator vario max with MS AP2003)
Stable Pb isotopes in environmental archives (Sector field ICP-MS, Element2, Thermo Electron)
Li, B isotopes (SIMS, Cameca ims 3f (modified and self-made software based on LabVIEW))
Low background Gamma Spectrometry
Global biogeochemical cycles (Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (MAT-252), Radiometric counting, Gas Chromatography