Research Facilities
Many of the Department's laboratories and analytical facilities are
described in detail in the sections on the four main research programs, as highlighted on
the previous page. In addition, the Department has to offer: faculty offices, classrooms,
graduate student work areas, various support facilities, interest-group laboratories, and
storage space. The Department houses its own University-affiliated library and a large new
geological laboratory equipped with multiple analytical facilities.
The Earth Sciences library contains some 6,000 government
publications, 29,000 other volumes, a large microform collection, computer search
capabilities and study facilities, in addition to subscribing to more than 250
earth-science journals. Ready access is possible to Norlin, the main University library,
as well as to separately housed libraries for Engineering and Mathematics/Physics. The
large Library of the U.S. Geological Survey is located nearby at the Denver Federal Center
in Lakewood and is accessible both directly and through Interlibrary loan.
| Extensive paleontological collections are available
for research by arrangement with the Director of the University of Colorado Museum. Most
of the Museum collections are working research collections. A
modern geological laboratory and an X-ray analytical laboratory house state-of-the-art
analytical instruments and support facilities which are used by faculty and students from
interest groups within and outside of the Department. Among the most state-of-the-art
instruments are a JEOL 8600 electron microprobe, Varian UltraMass 700 inductively coupled
plasma mass spectrometer with a CETAC LXS-200+ laser ablation system, ARL 3410+
inductively coupled optical emission spectrometer with a CETAC U-6000AT+ ultrasonic
nebulizer/membrane desolvator, Siemens powder and single-crystal X-ray diffractometers
with a 18KW rotating-anode X-ray source and allied graphics workstations, and newly
installed mass spectrometers for stable-isotope and radiogenic-isotope analysis (at CIRES
and INSTAAR). Other Department facilities include terminals and workstations in the
geological laboratory for computer- modeling, word processing and graphics, and a
workstation for stratigraphic and structural modeling. |
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