Analytical Equipment

• VG-PRISM stable-isotope mass spectrometer with accessories for on-line analysis of a wide variety of materials (waters, carbonates, organic matter, mixed gases), and the capability to analyse particularly small samples.
• Extraction lines for processing silicate and oxide minerals for ¹⁸O/¹⁶O analysis
• Laboratory and apparatus for elemental separation and analysis of Rb, Sr, Nd and Sm isotopes
• Waters ion chromatograph/HPLC with Eris autosuppression
• Phillips X-ray diffractometer with automated, computer-driven data collection and processing; Debye-Scherrer powder camera attachment
• SIROQUANT software for quantitative XRD analysis
• Tracor Northern energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analyser with automated, computer-driven data collection and processing
• Access to mass spectrometers for analysis of C, S, O, Rb, Sr, Nd, Sm and Pb isotope analyses (housed at the Centre for Isotope Studies, Sydney)
• Access to scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive X-ray analyse
• Sedimentology, chemistry, mineral separation and petrographic laboratories.
• Pollen preparation laboratory
• Amino acid racemization dating laboratory including gas chromatography and reverse phase, high performance liquid chromatograph
• Optical stimulated luminescence dating laboratory
• Compound specific radiocarbon sample preparation laboratory