University of Heidelberg - Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences - Institute of Earth Sciences
TIMS Radiogenic Isotopes
Members and associates

Bernd Kober

Instruments

5-cup MC-TIMS FINNIGAN MAT261

Class 10-100 clean room laboratories

Methods

Rb-Sr-method

U-Pb-method

Pb-Pb-method

Isotopes

^{85, 87}Rb

^{84, 86, 87, 88}Sr

^{204, 206, 207, 208}Pb

^{235, 238}U

Topics

Single zircon dating
Application of the Pb evaporation and SHRIMP techniques to single zircon grains

Sr-Pb isotope geochemistry
(Rb-)Sr and (U-)Pb isotope analysis of mineral and whole rock samples prepared from sediments, sedimentary and crystalline rocks for crustal evolution and environmental projects

Examples

Dating of single zircons from the Schwarzwald basement with SHRIMP

Pb pollution in sediments of Lake Constance indicated by the Pb isotope distribution in top sediments

Lectures

Isotope geology module
Summer semester: introduction to isotope geology I, exercises to isotope geology including field work, mineral separation, clean room wet chemical work, mass spectrometry.
Winter semester: introduction to isotope geology II, isotope geology seminar