About us
Dynamic Recrystallization
Research is directed toward high P/T experimental field-based and theoretical studies of a range of topics of fundamental significance to lithospheric processes on a wide range of scales. The group runs two laboratories:
- one equipped with a range of high-pressure/temperature equipment for experimental petrology. The petrology laboratory has been refurbished and includes 3 piston-cylinder apparatuses for high-pressure/temperature studies of processes in subduction zones. A multi-anvil cell is also used for in-situ studies of mineral transformations using synchrotron radiation.
- the laboratory for rock deformation and physical properties. In the rock deformation laboratory several machines have recently been upgraded for automatic pore volumometry and the Paterson gas apparatus is presently having added to it the capacity for high strain experiments in torsion.