Facilities - Analytical and Experimental Laboratories

Radiogenic Isotope Facilty, including:

• VG54-WARP multi-collector high-abundance-sensitivity thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS) for positive and negative ions analysis - Pictured
• VG Sector multi-collector thermal ionization mass spectrometer
• High resolution Alpha Spectrometry system
• Class 1000 clean laboratory
• Radioactive-isotope tracer and dating facilities
  

Cameca SX-50 Electron Microprobe

• VG Plasmaquad II+ ICP-MS with laser
• Siemens SRS-303 Automated X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF)
• Light Isotope Facility, including:
• Stable isotope mass spectrometers
• Varian GC/MS system stable isotope lab
• Sedimentology, paleontology, and paleomagnetics (including a 3-axis cryogenic magnetometer) laboratories
• Hydrogeology laboratory, fluid mechanics laboratory, soil and rock mechanics testing laboratory
• Instruments for measuring electrical conductivity on rocks or rock melts, thermal conductivity and thermal expansion, porosity and gas permeability
• Thin section and rock preparation labs
  

Crystal cutting and polishing facilities