Petrology and Geochemistry Facilities

  • Photomicroscopy lab with photomicrograph capabilities
  • Sample preparation facilities
    • Thin section lab
    • Rock crushing, grinding, powdering lab
    • Polishing lab
    • X-ray Diffractometer (XRD) - Rigaku MiniFlex 6G
  • Geochemistry lab with high temperature furnace, fume hood, lab chemicals
  • Scanning electron microscopy - JEOL JSM-7200F Field Emission SEM, Tescan Vega 3 Thermionic SEM,  & Tescan Vega 1 Thermionic SEM (+ associated technical support)
  • Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer  - Agilent 7500ce ICP-MS and New Wave Research UP213 laser ablation system (+ associated technical support)
    • Funded 2022 NSF grant to replace this aging system with an Agilent 7900 ICP-MS and Applied Spectra RESOlution-SE 193 nm excimer laser ablation (LA) system. 
  • Other analytical instruments housed in the Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center - free or low cost in-house use