Non-destructive automatic analyzing is a much cheaper and easier approach than the classical methods used to obtain data from sediment records. The analyzer is able to measure, in high resolution, the physical properties of the sediment such as the abundance of terrigenous and biogenic components in the sediment (p-wave velocity), sediment density (gamma density), true sediment color (color spectrophotometry), clay content (natural gamma spectrometry), sedimentary provenance and/or diagenetic environment (magnetic susceptibility), or yet the geochemical composition of sediments.
This laboratory includes a Multi Sensor Core Logger (MSCL-S) anda n XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence).

The IPMA’s MSCL-S and XRF Core Scanner are available to national and international researchers, please use the contacts page for further information.