Experimental Petrology: The Earth in the laboratory (177509-SS 2023)

Experimental Petrology: The Earth in the laboratory 

• Theoretical background: What is a good experiment?

• Overview of devices that are used to simulate conditions of Earth’s interior – From the gas-mixing furnace to the laser-heated diamond anvil cell.

• Calibration of experimental devices. 

• Dealing with measurement imperfections: Precision and accuracy. 

• Attainment of chemical equilibrium. 

• Hands-on experience in assembling and conducting experiments. 

• Treatment of synthetic and real experimental data, error propagation and basic data fitting.