The EPOS Multi-scale laboratories community will meet in Barcelona on November 21st-23rd, 2018, to discuss the outcomes of the
TCS Multi-scale laboratories includes a wide range of world-class experimental laboratory infrastructures: from high pressure-temperature rock and fault mechanics and rock physics facilities, to electron microscopy, micro-beam analysis, analogue modelling and paleomagnetic laboratories.
Understanding the processes that control the Earth's interior, and how these control phenomena ranging from earthquakes to volcanic eruptions to the formation of natural resources, requires a research approach that combines a vast range of spatial and temporal scales. For example, the catastrophic effects of an earthquake that lasts a few seconds, are intimately linked to the previous millions of years of geological history and to the properties of nanometre scale minerals within the fault zone. This multi-scale nature of processes that operate Earth is reflected in the huge diversity of methods and infrastructures employed in Earth science research laboratories. Data produced within these laboratories are of crucial importance for understanding how Earth works and has evolved, for locating and safely exploiting of geo-resources, and for evaluating and protecting against geo-hazards.
The TCS Multi-scale laboratories will, for the first time, structure and harmonize the available and emerging laboratory data at all relevant scales, to create efficient and organized services that support lab-based research on solid Earth processes and make the vast amount of data produced in Europe available to all Earth scientists, to industry and to society, in usable form.
Major solid Earth science laboratory centres and specialists will form a coherent and organized network, fostering new collaborations, new synergies, innovation and exchange for better research.
The TCS Multi-scale laboratories includes wide range of world-class experimental laboratory infrastructures ranging from high pressure-temperature rock and fault mechanics and rock physics facilities, to electron microscopy, micro-beam analysis, analogue modelling and paleomagnetic laboratories.
The length scales encompassed by these laboratory centres range from the nano- and micrometre levels (electron microscopy and micro-beam analysis) to the scale of experiments on centimetres-sized samples, and to analogue model experiments simulating the reservoir scale, the basin scale and the plate scale.
The Multi-scale laboratories infrastructures are grouped into four main application areas:
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Analogue modelling Labs |
CNRS, CSIC, IGG-CNR, LMU, RM3, UB, UAB, UGR, UNIBE, UNIZAR, UU |
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Paleomagnetism Labs |
CENIEH, CNRS, CSIC, INGV, IPGP, FIS, METEO, NIGGG-BAS, RM3, UAB, UBU, UCM, UNIZAR, UU, UVIGO |
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HPT and Rock physics Labs |
BGS, CNRS, DURHAM, ED, ETHZ, GFZ, INGV, INOGS, ISEL, LMU, NERC, PORT, UBI, UCL, ULISBOA, UU, UIT |
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Analytical & Microscopy Labs |
CCiTUB, CSIC, EHU, ETHZ, FCUP, GFZ, IGG-CNR, IGME, INGV, LNEG, UB, UCM, UGR, ULISBOA, UNIOVI, UU |
TCS Multi-scale laboratories partners:
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Analogue modelling laboratories
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Eurotank Flume Laboratory |
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany |
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Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
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GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
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Universidad de Zaragoza-IGME, Zaragoza, Spain |
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Laboratorio de Modelización Analógica de Estructuras Geológicas |
Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain |
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Universitá degli studi Roma TRE, Rome, Italy |
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CSIC-ICTJA, Barcelona, Spain |
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Bern University, Switzerland |
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Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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CNRS-Paris Sud Orsay University, Paris, France |
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CNRS-Cergy-Pontoise University, Pontoise, France |
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CNRS-Nice Sophia Antipolis University, Nice, France |
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CNRS-Maine University, Le Mans, France |
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CNRS-Toulouse University, Toulouse, France |
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CNRS-Montpellier University, Montpellier, France |
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CNRS-Rennes 1 University, Rennes, France |
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CNRS-Clermont-Ferrand University, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
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CNRS-Lille 1 University, Lille, France |
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IGG-CNR, Florence, Italy |
Rock/melt physics experimental laboratories
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Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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INGV, Rome, Italy |
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ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Melt and magma thermal analysis lab/High temperature melt lab |
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany |
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BGS British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK |
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University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK |
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UCL University College London, London, UK |
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The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK |
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Durham University, Durham, UK |
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Geomechanics Laboratory, GEOLAB-CERENA |
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal |
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Microseismology and Rock Physics Laboratory |
ISEL - Physics Department, Lisbon, Portugal |
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CNRS-Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Paris, France |
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Laboratoire de mécaniques des solides |
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France |
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Georessources |
CNRS-Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France |
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CNRS-EOST/Université of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France |
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Laboratoire 3S-R |
CNRS-Université de Grenoble, Grenoble, France |
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ISTERRE |
CNRS-Université de Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France |
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Laboratoire des fluides complexes et leur réservoirs |
CNRS-Université de Pau, Pau, France |
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Geosciences Montpellier |
CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France |
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Rock Deformation Laboratory |
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany |
Paleomagnetism laboratories
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Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
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INGV, Rome, Italy |
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Paleomagnetic Laboratory |
Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy |
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CSIC-ICTJA and Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
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CENIEH Burgos, Burgos, Spain |
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Laboratory of Paleomagnetism |
CSIC-IPNA, Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Islas Canarias, Spain |
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Laboratory of AMS (paleomagnetism) and Geophysical Prospection |
IGME-Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain |
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Laboratory of Paleomagnetism |
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and CSIC-IGEO, Madrid, Spain |
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Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Laboratory |
Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain |
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Laboratory of Paleomagnetism |
Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain |
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Group of Magnetic Applications |
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain |
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CNRS-Sorbonne Paris Cité University, Paris, France |
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CNRS-Versailles St Quentin University, Versailles, France |
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CNRS-Rennes 1 University, Rennes, France |
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CNRS-Toulouse University, Toulouse, France |
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CNRS-Montpellier University, Montpellier, France |
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CNRS-Aix Marseille University, Aix en Provence, France |
Analytical & microscopy laboratories
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Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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INGV, Rome, Italy |
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CSIC-ICTJA, Spain |
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CSIC-ICTJA, Spain |
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IGME-Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain |
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain |
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Universidad de Cádiz, Spain |
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Universidad de Granada, Spain |
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Laboratorios Analíticos de Geoquímica |
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain |
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Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain |
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Laboratorios Analíticos de Geología |
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain |
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Universidad de Salamanca, Spain |
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ANDALCHRON |
CSIC-IACT, Spain |
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LCGM Laboratory for Characterization of Geological Materials (Raman microspectrometry lab & Fluid inclusion microthermometric lab) |
FCUP, Portugal |
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Electron Microprobe |
LNEG-UCTM, Portugal |
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Electron Microprobe, XRD, FTIR, and XRF |
FCUL, Portugal |
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Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry: Ar-Ar geochronology laboratory |
IGG-CNR, Italy |
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Laboratory of Gas Geochemistry: |
IGG-CNR, Italy |
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Geochemical Microanalysis and Crystal-Chemistry: Mass spectrometry la-icp laboratory Secondary-ion-mass-spectrometry-sims-ion-microprobe-laboratory |
IGG-CNR, Italy |
Contact us
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TCS Multi-scale laboratories Skype |
uu.epos.wp16 |
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TCS Leader IT contact person |
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TCS Coordinator, Communication & Financial contact person |
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TCS Legal & Governance contact person |
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TCS Data Services |
Analogue models of geologic processes: Francesca Funiciello, Daniele Trippanera Paleomagnetic and magnetic data: Aldo Winkler Experimental data on rock properties: Audrey Ougier-Simonin Analytical data on rock properties: Jose-Luis Fernandez-Turiel |
