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Equipment
and Facilities
The School of
Earth Sciences occupies its own building (the McCoy Building), which
houses offices, teaching and research laboratories, lecture theatres,
mechanical and electronic workshops, and a comprehensive library
and Map Room.
List of Equipment and Facilities
Sample Preparation Facilities:
Mineral Separation Laboratory
Rock Crushing Laboratory
Thin Section and Polishing Laboratory
General Computing Facilities:
Unix Workstation Laboratories
iMac Laboratory
PC Laboratory
Imaging, Spatial Analysis and Modelling Facilities:
Geospatial Analysis Laboratory
Seismic and Structural Modelling Laboratory
Cold Laboratory for structural analogue modelling
Atmospheric and Ocean Science Facilities:
Meteorological Environmental Laboratory
Portable micrometeorological tower and data logger
Real-time meteorological and radiation data acquisition
system
Wind Tunnel Experimental Facility
Geochronology and Isotope Geology Facilities:
U/Th-He Thermochronology Laboratory
Fission Track Thermochronology Laboratory
Argon Dating and Thermochronology Laboratory
Luminescence Dating Laboratory
Cosmogenic Isotope Laboratory
Isotope Preparation Class 350 Clean Laboratory
Multi-Collector LAM-ICP-MS Isotopic Analysis Facility
Geochemistry Facilities:
(Under installation) Laser Ablation ICP-MS Trace Analysis
Facility
Joint Electron Microprobe Laboratory
Hydro-geochemistry Laboratory
Microscopy Facilities:
Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS
and CL
Petrographic Microscope Laboratory
Cathodoluminescence and Fluid Inclusion Stages
Field Equipment and Support Facilities:
Hydrogeology Laboratory
Field Vehicle Fleet
Shared VIEPS Facilities (Monash and La Trobe):
Stable Isotope Laboratory
Geophysical Laboratories
Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry laboratory
Palaeomagnetism and Rock Magnetics Laboratory
X-Ray Fluorescence and Diffraction Laboratory
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