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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
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