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Petrology and Mineralogy Lab
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The lab explores the circulation of materials on Earth through the records preserved in rocks and minerals.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading Earth's records preserved in rocks and minerals
The Petrology and Mineralogy Lab reads the records of how rocks and minerals formed and changed.
It investigates processes such as volcanic eruptions, the generation and solidification of magma, the development of the crust, and interactions between rocks and water.
The aim is to understand how materials have circulated and evolved near the surface of the solid Earth.
The lab's faculty members work on studies of Earth's deep interior, examining rocks from the crust to the mantle, and on studies of mineral-forming reactions using high-temperature, high-pressure experiments.
Key terms
- Mantle
- The thick rocky layer beneath the crust
- High-temperature, high-pressure experiments
- Experiments that use equipment to create temperatures and pressures close to those deep underground, in order to study how rocks and minerals form and change
- Polarizing microscope
- A microscope that uses light with an aligned vibration direction to identify the minerals in thin sections of rock
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies, through rocks and minerals, how materials have circulated and evolved near the surface of the solid Earth. It combines fieldwork with laboratory observation, analysis, and experiments.
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MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYuji Ichiyama
- Assistant ProfessorNoboru Furukawa
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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: “Thin section scan crossed polarizers Siilinjärvi H10” kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Reading Earth's processes from rocks and minerals: “001 Volcano eruption of Litli-Hrútur in Iceland in 2023 Photo by Giles Laurent” Giles Laurent / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Crustal Structure Lab): “Fault with fault breccia in interbedded metagraywacke-slate (Lake Vermilion Formation, Neoarchean, Ga; Pike River Bridge outcrop, just north of Peyla, Minnesota, USA) )” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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