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