加州大學(xué)洛杉磯分校地球化學(xué)

UCLA geochemists and cosmochemists explore chemical processes at scales ranging from atoms, molecules and unit cells to plate boundaries, mountain belts, whole planets, and the solar system. We seek to understand the origin of our solar system, including its connection with the interstellar medium, the processes that transformed the cloud of dust and gas surrounding the nascent sun into the building blocks of planets, the geologic processes on those early planetesimals, and their accretion to form Earth and planets. We also examine rates of geologic processes, physical chemistry of fluids in extreme environments, how magma chambers form and evolve, the mineral transformations attending mountain building. The work is performed using an array of instrumentation, including the national ion microprobe facility, gas- and solid-source mass spectrometers, and a multiple-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer for precise measurements of isotopic compositions of natural materials.

1、生物地球化學(xué)

2、宇宙化學(xué)

3、晶體化學(xué)

4、實驗巖石學(xué)

5、穩(wěn)定和放射性元素的同位素研究

6、海洋地球化學(xué)

7、流星研究

8、行星學(xué)

9、月球地球化學(xué)