Laboratories

The department has the following laboratory facilities and equipment:-

• Geochemistry lab: Mineral separation, rock digestion and rock extract analyses. Equipment includes 2 GC., 3 GC/MS, C&S analyser, HPLC and Particle Size Analyser.
• Petrophysics lab: Porosity/permeability measurements using a Jones permeameter.
• Sections suite: Rock cutting, crushing and polished block/slide preparations.
• Clean sedimentary Lab: Mineral separation and pre-treatment of rocks for analysis. Sieving is now carried out in St Marys.
• Optics lab: Microscopes with point counters and cameras attached.
• SEM: Scanning Electron Microscopy (using an ISI ABT-55) of rock samples both for research and teaching.
• Microprobe: 3 Microprobes used in quantitative analyses of rock samples.
• Palynology lab: Acid digestion research lab. for preparation of microfossils.
• Microscopes: For class use.

Lab Staff

Colin Taylor: Geochemistry & Petrophysics Labs
John Still: SEM & Microprobes
Fiona Thomson: Palynology Lab

For more information contact Mr Jim Marr, TRO

IT Facilities

• Research Workstation room providing access to PCs running Earthwave, ArcGis, Kingdom, Winlog, graphics software, scanners, A3 digitising tablet and Sun workstations running Openworks software and Rock Solid Attributes under Unix.
• Licenses for Kingdom, Earthwave, Hampson Russell (Strata, Geoview), Openworks, Rokdoc, Geoprobe, Opendtect, Petrel, Winlog, Tesseral, Rock Solid Attributes, Oilfield Data Manager (Senergy), Move 2009 (Midland Valley) and SVI Pro (ffA).
• Large format A0 plotter
• A3 printer & scanner
• Multiple slide scanner
• Dedicated PGT classrooms with PCs, scanners and printers

IT Staff

Judith Christie
Matt Norrie

For more information contact Mrs Judith Christie