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Stratigraphy and Sedimentation Laboratory

Stratigraphy and Sedimentation Laboratory

This state of the art geology smart classroom seats twenty-four students and includes an extensive rock and mineral collection for classroom use, and petrographic microscopes for the study of thin section slides. The rear of the classroom is a fully equipped sediment laboratory that includes a fume hood for sample preparation, a muffle furnace for analysis of organic and inorganic carbon content, and a Coulter Counter laser diffraction unit for the measurement of sediment grain size.