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Structural Geology Research Lab |
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The structural geology lab is a fully functional mineral separates facility that is used
to separate minerals for a wide variety of geochronologic and thermochronologic analyses.
The lab is equipped with a Frantz LB-1 magnetic barrier separator, a heavy liquids separation
facility, a petrographic microscope with digital camera and a picking microscope. Some examples
of the application of the lab include separation of zircon for U-Pb geochronology, separation
of hornblende, mica and K-feldspar for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and
thermochronology, and the separation of apatite for low temperature (U-Th)/He thermochronologic
analyses.
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