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Mineralogy Lab
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The lab explores global environmental change through the growth and dissolution of minerals.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading the changes of the Earth through the changes of minerals.
The Mineralogy Lab (Yoshihiro Kuwahara) investigates, at the nanoscale and atomic scale, the reactions of growth and dissolution of mineral crystals that occur at the interface between minerals and water.
The lab also carries out its research with an interest in the relationship between these reactions and global climate change and environmental change.
Mineral growth and dissolution reactions are thought to affect groundwater quality, soil weathering, the movement and remediation of pollutants, and even the global climate.
In the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation, the lab is in charge of "Earth's Changes," a course in the Earth and Environment area.
Key terms
- Nanoscale
- Nano means one billionth. The nanoscale is the scale at which things are observed and examined at such extremely small sizes
- Weathering and alteration
- The process in which rocks and minerals near the Earth's surface are affected by water and other agents and change in their properties and appearance
ResearchResearch themes
The lab investigates the reactions of crystal growth and dissolution that occur between minerals and water, and explores the relationship between these reactions and global climate change and environmental change. Using basic data on how minerals change, it aims to reconstruct past global environments and climate change and to predict future environmental change.
*Illustrative imageGrowth and dissolution reactions at the mineral-water interface
The lab analyzes, at the nanoscale and atomic scale, the reactions in which mineral crystals grow or dissolve at the surface where minerals meet water. These reactions are thought to affect groundwater quality, the weathering of rocks and soil, and the movement and remediation of pollutants.
*Illustrative imageReading the Earth's environment from weathering and alteration
Focusing on mica minerals, mica clay minerals, carbonate and sulfate minerals, and glassy materials, which are widespread at the Earth's surface, the lab studies in detail how minerals change through weathering and alteration. From this basic data, it aims to reconstruct past global environments and climate change, clarify the causes of those changes, and predict future environmental change.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYoshihiro Kuwahara
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Gypsum - Sieroszowice mine, Lubin, Lower Silesia, Poland” Ivar Leidus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Growth and dissolution reactions at the mineral-water interface: “Fluorescence in calcite” Jan Pavelka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Reading the Earth's environment from weathering and alteration: “Physical weathering of volcanic rock” Heidi Soosalu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mineralogy Lab): “Brown calcite crystals ( )” James Petts from London, England / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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