| Various types of equipment
are available for meteorite research at PSU. The Department of Geology
has sample preparation facilities, including a variety of saws and polishing
equipment, and petrographic microscopes.
Analytical equipment in
the Department of Geology includes a scanning electron microscope (SEM),
an inductively-coupled mass-spectrometer, instrumental neutron activation
analysis equipment, an x-ray diffractometer, and remote access to the Oregon
State University Cameca SX-100 electron microprobe.
A high-resolution transmission
electron microscope (HR-TEM) is housed in the Department of Physics.
Researchers at PSU also
use the laser-ablation inductively-coupled-plasma mass spectrometer
(LA-ICPMS) at the W.M. Keck Collaboratory for Plasma Spectrometry at Oregon
State University.
Links to some of the equipment
are given below:
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Graduate student Tom Lindsay
working at the
Geology department's SEM.
Melinda Hutson uses a petrographic
microscope
to study a meteorite thin
section.
The new HR-TEM in the Physics
department.
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