Facilities

The London Geochemistry and Isotope Centre (LoGIC) hosts a number of linked facilities for analytical and experimental characterization of natural and artificial materials. 

Most of these facilities are situated within the joint UCL/Birkbeck Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences (IEPS), which is situated in the Bloomsbury area of London. LoGIC specializes in state-of-the-art isotopic measurements as a means to date objects and to determine processes, and to trace sources of material on differing scales both today and through geological time.

Our Laboratories and Facilities

• Biogeochemistry laboratory
• Bloomsbury Environmental Isotope Facility (BEIF)
• Cross-Faculty Elemental Analysis Facility 
• Geochemistry laboratory 
• London Geochronology Centre (LGC)
• Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry laboratory (TIMS lab) at Royal Holloway 
• Birkbeck College clean labs
• Metal Isotope Facility (MC-ICP-MS)

 

Associated Laboratories

• Environmental Sedimentology laboratory
• Micropalaeontology laboratories
• Microprobe Suite
• Rock Preparation laboratory
• Scanning Electron Microscopy Laboratory
• London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) 
• RAMAN spectroscopy lab