Electron Microprobe Laboratory
Experimental Petrology Laboratory
Sample preparation facilities
18 externally heated reaction vessels for experimental operations to 900° C, 200 MPa.
Fluid Inclusion Microthermometry Laboratory
Specialized sample preparation equipment
Linkam TH600 programmable heating/freezing stage
Zeiss
Research Photomicroscope
Gas Hydrates Laboratory
Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory
Gamma-ray spectrometers for the determination of rare-earth element and
other trace element abundances in neutron-activated geological materials
Organic Geochemistry/Stable Isotope Laboratories
Finnigan Triple Stage Quadrupole MSMS system
Finnigan MAT 252 GC isotope ratio mass spectrometer
Finnigan Delta XL GC isotope ratio mass spectrometer system
Multiple Varian, Agilent, Carlo Erba gas chromatographs
equipped with
flame ionization detectors, nitrogen, sulfur
selective detectors
Thermo Delta V Plus interfaced to elemental analysers and
a gas bench
for multi-element stable isotope analyses
of organic and inorganic
materials
High temperature gas chromatographic capability
Pyrolysis GC and GCMS systems are available
Complete wet laboratory facilities are available for rock
extraction
and fractionation via HPLC or column
chromatography
Leitz Ortholux microscope for characterization of the
organic matter in source rock samples
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Physical and Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory
Anaerobic chambers (Coy and Plas-Labs)
Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (2 instruments),including
lamps for the
analysis of Ag, Al, As, Au, B, Ba, Be, Ca, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, K,
Li, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, Pb, Sr, Ti,
V, Zn
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Pacific Nanotechnology
Nano-Rp system with environmental cell
Electrodes and meters for laboratory and field analysis
Gas adsorption analysis, including BET surface area
Geochemical thermodynamic and reaction path modeling (Geochemist's Workbench)
Geochemical reactors
Polarized light microscopy
Pressure vessels
Ultracentrifugation
Ultrapure water system, 18 M-ohm Barnstead Nanopure Diamond system
Texaco X-Ray Laboratory
Rigaku X-ray diffractometer
Rigaku X-ray fluorescence spectrometer
Other SGG Facilities
Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
Sam Noble Electron Microscopy Facility
Youngblood Energy Library |
