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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 180/160 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

 
 
   

Last reviewed: 13 December, 2006 

 
   
 
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