Geology and Mineralogy

Head of Section : Luc André

Objective

• To quantify the endogenous and exogenous geodynamics using geochemical tracers to create a model of the rapid geological processes which have an impact on human societies, especially in Africa: global changes, management of pollution, hydrodynamics, volcanism, deep plastic deformations, etc.
  

Structure

The section Mineralogy and Petrography  is divided into 3 units :

• Unit 1 : Geochemistry of endogenous processes, petrology and mineralogy   (soon available)
• Unit 2 : Biogeochemistry and aquatic geochemistry
• Unit 3 : Laboratories and analytical methodology
  

Scientific Staff

Presentation of scientific staff

On-line database of minerals

More than 12500 mineral samples covering 1000 mineral species, mostly from Africa.