U series dating of carbonates is also available.
The facility accepts work from outside users on either a collaborative or contractural basis. Focusses on a newly discovered mantle component thought to be derived from recycled lithospheric mantle or mafic lower continental crust. Is concerned with the dynamics of mantle melting under ridges. Compares the setting of a recent submarine hydrothermal vent field with that of ancient Cu-Zn mineralization in ophiolites. Geochemical, melt inclusion, mineral chemical and isotopic studies of single mineral grains in Silurian dacites, SE Australia.