Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography
Faculty of Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy
University of Vienna

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Secretary: Mo-Mi: 9-12 & 13-16; Do: 13-17; Fr: 9-13;
Tel.: (+431) 4277 53201, FAX: (+431) 4277 9532,
Email.: mineralogie@univie.ac.at

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  Optical absorption and emission

Disclaimer:

The list below contains links to external websites. We do not claim the list to be complete, neither do we believe that our comments and statements concerning the quality of the content of these websites are objective. Comments were made to provide a rough guide for the usefulness and reliability of websites and their data content. At present (December 2006) the status of the internet presence of working groups in this field of topic is very poor. Several well known European spectroscopists don’t have homepages accessible in Latin script and some don’t even provide a homepage at all. Even if so, most often hardly any information of spectroscopic relevance is given. The following links can therefore only be regarded as a selection. Any corrections, suggestions and further feedback are welcome.
   
  1. Optical absorption spectroscopy
 

1.1. Online databases of mineralogical relevance

At present (December 2006), there seems to be only one free online database on optical absorption spectra of minerals:

Mineral Spectroscopy Server
Credit: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; George R. Rossman
Comments:  > 100 mineral spectra; upload possible; data accessible free of charge

1.2. European working groups applying optical absorption spectroscopy

Austria: Universität Salzburg – Abteilung für Mineralogie
France: Université Marne-la-Vallée – Laboratoire Geomateriaux et Geologie de l’Ingenieur
France: Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) – Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés
Germany: TU Berlin – Institut für angewandte Geowissenschaften, Fachgebiet Mineralogie
Germany: Universität Hannover – Institut für Mineralogie
Germany: Universität Karlsruhe – Institut für Mineralogie und Geochemie
Spain: Universitat Jaume I (Castellón) – Departament de Química Inorgànica I Orgànica
Sweden: The Swedish Museum of Natural History
United Kingdom: University of Manchester – School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

  2. Luminescence
 

2.1. Online databases of mineralogical relevance

Up to  December 2006 www-searches didn’t yield free online databases on emission spectra of minerals

2.2. Luminescence images

CL Web
A lot of good quality CL images

Laboratory of sedimentary system
A few CL images of quartz and carbonates

Lumic - CL Photo Gallery
Collection of very high quality CL images provided by Lumic – a manufacturer of CL microscopes

The Fluorescent Mineral Society
International organization of professional mineralogists, gemologists, amateur collectors, and others who study and collect fluorescent minerals

University of Leeds - School of Earth Sciences
CL images of cataclastic fault rock evolution 

2.3. A selection of European working groups applying cathodoluminescence (CL), photoluminescence (PL) or luminescence dating techniques on minerals:

Estonia: Technical University Tallinn – Research Laboratory for Quaternary Geochronology (luminescence dating)
France: Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CL)
France: Université Claude Bernard Lyon – Laboratoire de Physico-chimie des Matériaux Luminescents (PL)
France: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne – Groupe d’étude sur les géomateriaux et environments naturels et anthropiques (CL)
France: Université Paris - Département des Sciences de la Terre (CL)
France: Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) - Laboratoire «Biominéralisations et Paléoenvironnements» (CL)
Germany: TU Bergakademie Freiberg – Institute für Mineralogie (CL)
Germany: TU Bergakademie Freiberg – Institut für angewandte Physik (luminescence dating)
Germany: Universität Bochum – Zentrale Rasterelektronenmikroskopie (CL)
Greece: National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos - Laboratory  of Archaeometry (luminescence dating)
Netherlands: Netherlands Centre for Luminescence dating (luminescence dating)
Russia: University of Moscow – Department of Mineralogy (CL)
Switzerland: Universität Bern – Institut für Geologie (CL)
United Kingdom: Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, SURRC (luminescence dating)
United Kingdom: University of Wales Aberystwyth - Luminescence Research Laboratory (luminescence dating)

   
   
 
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