Géosciences Montpellier
Université de Montpellier
Campus triolet cc060
Place eugène bataillon
34095 montpellier cedex05
FRANCE
Where to find us
Microscopy and Microanalysis Technical Platform groups together UMR’s microscopy and microanalysis equipment.
Each component is under direct responsibility of a scientific referent and a technical manager. These facilities are open to all UMR’s scientific projects, depending on their specific thematic focus and under responsibility of scientific referents.
Technical manager : Fabrice Barou
Scientific manager : Andréa Tommasi
This world-renowned national platform of RéGEF network comprises two scanning electron microscopes dedicated to measurement of crystallographic orientations. Processes studied are those of ductile or magmatic deformation and recrystallization, via measurement of preferential orientations of crystal lattices in rocks of Earth’s mantle and crust, but also in ice and metals.
MAGE Platform
Micro-Analysis et imaging Geomaterials and Environment
EPMA / X-ray fluorescence spectrometer
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Technical manager : Olivia Mauguin
Scientific manager : Fleurice Parat
MAGE platform is equipped with an EPMA is an analysis laboratory providing data on composition and stucture of solid materials.
Technical manager : Olivia Mauguin
Scientific manager : Olivier Oliot
Observation by optical microscopy is basis of much of the laboratory’s research. A fleet of around twenty microscopes and stereomicroscopes is available. It allows, among other things, to carry out microscopic observations in transmitted and reflected light, by cathodoluminescence, or to carry out microthermometric analysis of fluid inclusions. Some of these devices are equipped with digital cameras allowing image capture.