Facilities

TIMS Lab:

The VG Sector 54 Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometer at Lamont used mainly for the analysis of isotopes of the elements Nd, Sr, Pb.

Clean Lab:

 Geochemical tracers for isotope analyses are frequently present in very low concentrations, that they are prone to environmental contamination and thus an ultraclean environment is needed for their chemical separation from the sample matrix (rock, sediment, water etc.). We currently utilize the Cleanlab in the old Geochemistry Building. A state-of-the-art ultraclean laboratory is planned for the Comer Building.

(photos coming soon)

Sediment Lab:

Sediments are generally cleaned, disaggregated, sieved and picked for minerals and carbonates in the sediment lab.

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