Welcome to the Argon/Argon and Noble Gas Research Laboratory
The Laboratory was first established in 1989, and has since built an international reputation for high-quality Ar/Ar and rare gas analyses by laser ablation methods.
The Ar/Ar dating method is a very versatile radiometric dating tool, generally applicable to finding the age of any potassium-bearing rock or mineral. Consequently our Ar/Ar dating research activities are diverse and include: meteorite impacts, volcanoes, mountain-building, sandstone and mudrock provenance, and, not forgetting an old favourite, excess argon. Our noble gas experimentation includes determining diffusion rates of different gas species in minerals and metals.
News
New Paper alert: Papadopoulou et al 2024. Gondwana Research, Evidence for long lived continental intraplate volcanism
Papadopoulou, Martha; Barry, Tiffany; Dash, Batulzii; Halton, Alison; Sherlock, Sarah and Hunt, Alison (2024). Evidence for long-lived (>100 Myr) continental intraplate volcanism: Mongolia since the last ocean closure.
- Ar Lab at the FluidNET conference March 2024
- New Paper alert: Celik et al 2023, "New evidence for the presence of the Inner Tauride Ocean....."
- New Paper alert: Cortuk et al 2023 "Late Cretaceous -Paleogene tectonothermal evolution of Akdag Msasif in the central anatolian crystalline complex
- Lab members at Metamorphic Studies Group Research In Progress meeting, April 2023
- New Paper "Late Paleocene-Middle Eocene magmatic flare-up in western Anatolia"
Contact us
Argon/Argon & Noble Gas Research Group
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K.
Lead Academic - Dr Sarah Sherlock
Telephone: +44 (0) 1908 659559 (office),
Lab Manager - Dr Alison Halton
+44 (0) 1908 659449 (office)
Explore
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Policy
-
Follow us on Social media
-
