Laboratory for Noblegas Mass Spectrometry
Contact Person
Prof. Dr. Mario Trieloff
Institute of Earth Sciences
Im Neuenheimer Feld 236
69120 Heidelberg
Phone +49 6221 54-6022/ -4887
mario.trieloff@geow.uni-heidelberg.de
Homepage
Equipment
Finnigan MAT GD-150
MAT CH5
VG3600
Nu-Instruments Noblesse noble gas mass spectrometer
Method
Measurement of noble gas isotopes, for the dating of minerals and rocks using the 40Ar/39Ar and 129I/129Xe technique.
Measurement of cosmogenic noble gas nuclides.
Key Publications
Trieloff M., Kunz J., Clague D.A., Harrison D. and Allègre C.J. (2000) The nature of pristine noble gases in mantle plumes. Science 288, 1036-1038.
Trieloff M., Jessberger E.K., Herrwerth I., Hopp J., Fiéni C., Ghélis M., Bourot-Denise M. and Pellas P. (2003). Structure and thermal history of the H-chondrite parent asteroid revealed by thermochronometry. Nature 422, 502-506.
Hopp J., Trieloff M., and Altherr R. (2007a) Noble gas compositions of the lithospheric mantle below the Chyulu Hills volcanic field, Kenya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 261, 635-648.
Schmieder M., Schwarz W.H., Trieloff M., Tohver E., Buchner E., Hopp J., Osinski G.R. (2015) New 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Clearwater Lake impact structures (Québec, Canada) - Not the binary asteroid impact it seems? Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 148 304-324.
