Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood — Marie Curie

At the University of Lausanne, the MetP group teaches the processes that shape rocks deep within the Earth, from the scale of a mineral grain to that of a mountain belt. Our courses cover metamorphic petrography and petrology, thermodynamics and kinetics, the physics and chemistry of the Earth’s interior, regional and Alpine geology, and a metamorphic mapping field camp.

Our aim is to help students look closely at the evidence, analyze it carefully and build a consistent interpretation. Earth sciences have become increasingly quantitative, so we combine classical observation with thermodynamic modeling, compositional mapping and programming, and we bring recent research directly into the classroom. Fieldwork remains at the heart of our teaching: there is no better place to understand metamorphic processes than in the rocks themselves, and the Alps are right on our doorstep.

We are happy to share some of the teaching material we designed. They are freely available for teaching and learning at any level, from school classrooms to university courses.

Figures on this page are licensed under CC BY 4.0. Please cite as: Lanari, P., MetP group, University of Lausanne (metp.ch).” Link the license name to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Caption: Personal view of the thermodynamic model developments and software solutions made by metamorphic petrologists and their applications in related fields, represented as a “map showing the principal thermodynamic databases & modelling tools.” The application examples cited for each software are built on a combination of published work and ongoing research projects by incredible research groups and individuals. This is a non-exhaustive and strongly biased list, representing only a small portion of the diversity of what has been done with these models.

Author: P. Lanari

Thermoland 2021 — Personal view of the thermodynamic model developments and software solutions made by metamorphic petrologists and their applications in related fields, represented as a “map showing the principal thermodynamic databases & modelling tools.”

Author: P. Lanari

Reference: Lanari (2021). Overview of Thermodynamic Databases. Presented in Phase equilibrium modelling e-workshop. e-thermo-workshop-2021.petrochronology.org