Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- University of Bucharest
- Department
- Research
- Research Field
- Chemistry » Structural chemistry
- Researcher Profile
- Established Researcher (R3)
- Country
- Romania
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Part-time
- Hours Per Week
- 20
- Offer Starting Date
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- European Union / Next Generation EU
- Reference Number
- PNRR CF 64/2023
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER GRADE III, FIELD OF GEOLOGY OR CHEMISTRY - Magmatic zircon U-Pb age; detrital zircon U-Pb ages; U-Pb titanite petrochronology; mapping elements by sections; lithium isotopes; unconventional measurements on flat surfaces; atomic, mass and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
Requirements
- Research Field
- Geosciences » Geology
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Good
- Languages
- ROMANIAN
- Level
- Mother Tongue
- Research Field
- Chemistry
- Years of Research Experience
- More than 10
Additional Information
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
U-Pb petrochronology: zircon and titanite
Radioactive decay systems
Particularities Y-Th-Pb
Geological applications: where, on what materials, what age
Geochemistry of zircon and sphene
U-Pb ages on zircon and sphene
The foundations of modern petrochronology - what does the new discipline of petrochronology solve and how?
Geological applications
Tectonic applications
Instrumentation: ICP-MS with laser ablation, X-ray fluorescence
Advantages and disadvantages of ICP-MS compared to the classic ID-TIMS methodology
Emerging techniques: Zr isotopes in zircon
Applications to chemical measurement
REFERENCES:
Balica, C., M.N. Ducea G.E. Gehrels, J. Kirk, R.D. Roban, P. Luffi J.B. Chapman, A. Triantafyllou, J. Guo, A.M. Stoica, J. Ruiz, I. Balintoni, L. Profeta, D. Hoffman, L. Petrescu, 2020, A zircon petrochronologic view on granitoids and continental evolution, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 531, paper 11605 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.116005.
Faure, G. 2004, Isotopes, principles and applications, Wiley and Sons, ISBN: 0471384372, 928 pages.
Guo, J.-L., Z. Wang, W. Zhang, F. Moynier, D. Cui, Z. Hu, and M. N. Ducea, 2020, Significant Zr isotope variations in single zircon grains recording magma evolution history, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(35), 21125-21131.
Luffi, P., and Ducea, M. N., 2022, Chemical Mohometry: Assessing Crustal Thickness of Ancient Orogens Using Geochemical and Isotopic Data: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 63, no. e2021RG000753, p. 1-42.
Roban, RD, Ducea, MN, Mihalcea, V I, Munteanu, I, Barbu, V, Melinte-Dobrinescu, M.C, Olariu, C., Vlasceanu M., 2023, Provenance of Oligocene lithic and quartz arenites of the East Carpathians: Understanding sediment routing systems on compressional basin margins, Basin Research, volume 35, Issue 1, p. 244 - 270.
Triantafyllou, A, Ducea, MN, Jepson, G, Hernandez-Montenegro, JD, Bisch, A and Ganne, J, 2023, Europium anomalies in detrital zircons record major transitions in Earth geodynamics at 2.5 Ga and 0.9 Ga. Geology, v. 51, 141-145.
Barla A., Ducea, MN, Jepson, G., Triantafyllou, A, McLelland, W., Giesler, N, Gehrels, GE, 2023, A systematic evaluation of matrix-matched titanite reference materials for U-Pb, trace element, and isotopic analysis, Chemical Geology, article 121635, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121635
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Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST -LYTHOS Centre-
- Country
- Romania
- State/Province
- Bucharest
- City
- Bucharest
- Geofield
Where to apply
- ducea@arizona.edu
Contact
- State/Province
- Bucharest
- City
- Bucharest
- Website
- Street
- Panduri, Nr.90
- petrocon@g.unibuc.ro