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Frances Cooper and Byron Adams join the LGC

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A belated welcome to Dr Frances Cooper and Dr Byron Adams, who joined the LGC team in 2023! Fran ces is a geologist whose research seeks to...

Prof. Yang Li from Peking University joins the LGC

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Dr Yang Li is an associate professor in Economic Geology and Geochemistry at Peking University.  His research mainly focuses on the timing a...

Detrital geochronology points to early glaciation of West Antarctica.

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Zircon U-Pb data acquired at the LGC, and statistical methods developed by us, demonstrated that the extent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet...

How to quantify U-Pb discordance?

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In a new Geochronology paper, Vermeesch (2021) shows that the current practice of filtering discordant U–Pb data based on the relative di...

Tim Band joins the group

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Tim Band is a Senior Research Software engineer who will work on the NERC-funded "Beyond Isoplot" project (Standard Grant #NE/T...

Sir David Attenborough visits the lab

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On Tuesday April 17, we had the great pleasure of giving a lab tour to Sir David Attenborough, who was the guest of honour at the Kathlee...

IsoplotR released to the world

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IsoplotR is a free and open-source substitute for Kenneth Ludwig's popular Isoplot add-in to Microsoft Excel. The program is written...

Geologists discover 60 million-year-old meteorite impact

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  The LGC were part of a team of geologists who discovered the first recorded occurrence of vanadium-rich osbornite on Earth, from tw...

High throughput geochronology by automated phase mapping and LAICPMS

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The first step in most geochronological studies is to extract dateable   minerals from the host rock, which is time consuming, removes tex...

Widespread Antarctic glaciation during the Late Eocene

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A provenance study of late Eocene marine sedimentary rocks drilled on the southeastern margin of the South Orkney microcontinent in Antarct...