Downing Site
A list of faciities available for use at the Department of Earth Sciences
General
- Electron probe
- Dynamic mechanical analysis
- Differential scanning calorimetry
- Optical microscopes
- Cathodoluminescency microscope
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectromer (ICP-MS) - 'the quad'
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
Geochemistry Laboratories
- Multicollector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS)
- Quadrupole Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectromer (ICP-MS - 'the quad')
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICP-AES, 'the vista')
- Laser ablation system (coupled to the quad)
- Multicollector thermal ionisation mass spectrometer
Godwin Laboratories
Stable Isotope Laboratory
- VG PRISM Mass Spectrometer with Multiprep System
- VG SIRA Mass Spectrometer with Multicarb System
- Thermo Finnigan MAT253 Mass Spectrometer with Kiel Device
- Thermo Finnigan MAT253 with Gas Bench II
- Thermo Finnigan 253 with Elemental Analyser
- Thermo Finnigan 253 with TC (High Temperature Conversion) Elemental Analyser
- VG PRISM with ‘Tube Cracker’ System
- Several more Mass spectrometers are arriving shortly...
Sedimentary Laboratory ('Sed Lab')
- Shakers for sediment disaggregation
- Sieves (range of sizes) & settling beakers
- Drying ovens
- Sedigraph
- Coulter counter
- Magnetic susceptibility meter
- X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) core scanner
- Faxitron X-radiography set
- CHN elemental analyser
- Image analyser
- Photomicroscopes
- Freeze-drier
Micropalaeontology Laboratory ('Picking Room')
- Light Microscopes
- Sieves, brushes, picking trays
- High precision micro-balances
High Temperature Laboratory
- 6 High Temperature furnaces (1500ºC, 1atm)
- 12 Hydrothermal cold seal pressure vessels and furnaces (1000°C, 2 kbar)
- Piston-cylinder rig (1600°C, 25 kbar)
- Walker press (2000°C, 200 kbar)
- Controlled atmosphere furnace
- Bridgeman furnace for the growth of single crystals from high-temperature melts.
Mineral Sciences Research Laboratory
- X-ray diffractometers (powder/single crystal, room temperature/high temperature, vacuum/1atm)
- Infrared spectrometer (FTIR)
- Raman spectrometer
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR)
- Thermal & Mechanical analysis
- Second harmonic generation
- Dielectric spectrometer
- High pressure diffraction cells
- Computational facilities
Palaeontological Preparation Laboratories
- Acid preparation of fossils (acetic acid and HF)
- Air abrasion machine
Rock cutting & polishing
Workshops
They can make pretty much anything (within reason & budget).
Last updated on 30-Sep-11 12:47