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| Room |
Sediment Preparation Lab
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| Location |
Rm. M3009,
3rd floor,
Bldg. 15 (McKelvey Bldg.)
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| Contact |
Michael E. Torresan
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| Description |
This laboratory is a general purpose facility that can be used by almost any discipline. The laboratory provides the space, major laboratory apparatus, labware, expendable supplies, and chemistry required to prepare sediment, rock, or other geologic materials for a variety of more detailed and quantitative analyses. Subsequent more detailed analyses (such as particle size analysis) are typically conducted in other laboratories after the samples have been prepared in the sediment preparation lab. This laboratory is intrinsically tied to three other labs that it is adjacent to: the carbon/carbonate lab, the fume hood lab, and the fine particle (< 0.063 mm) size analysis laboratory.
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Specialized
Equipment |
This laboratory houses a variety of general purpose laboratory apparatus including three large floor centrifuges (of which one is digital and refrigerated), three ovens, numerous wet-sieves, and lab carts that can be used to transport samples, equipment, and supplies from one laboratory to another. The laboratory also provides an array of glass labware (beakers, pipettes, graduated cylinders etc.) and expendable and safety supplies (spatulas, paper towels, gloves, respirators etc.) required for most geologic preparation procedures subsequent analyses. |
Equipment
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Technique |
Most analyses are conducted to determine the characteristic physical properties, composition, and age of various geologic materials. Analyses that sediment is prepared for include (but are not limited to) grain size, mineralogy, chemical constituents, carbon/carbonate, atterberg limits, smear slides, geochronology, and micro-paleontology. Laboratory equipment is intrinsic to most every sediment or geotechnical lab and includes everything from simple beakers, graduated cylinders, hot plates, ovens, stirrers, evaporating dishes, thermometers, pipettes, sieves, timers, microscope supplies, dessicators, mortars and pestles, and expendable supplies (weight boats, paper towels, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, tape etc.), to more technical centrifuges and scales.
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