Discipline facilities

The Geology Discipline is housed in the Science building on the UMM campus. In addition to standard basic laboratory and field equipment (e.g., petrographic microscopes, Brunton compasses, hand-held GPS units), we have a research-grade Nikon petrographic microscope with digital imaging capability, a complete rock-cutting and thin-sectioning lab, mineral separation equipment including a jaw crusher, pulverizer, and Frantz magnetic separator, and a Trimble LS4600 Differential (survey grade) GPS unit. An in-house map and graphics laboratory features both Mac and PC computers supporting the latest graphics, analytical, and GIS software along with large-format scanners and printers. Student researchers have open access to these equipment and are encouraged to use them to further their research goals.

The discipline is currently pursuing acquisition of a new Rigaku Multiflex X-ray diffraction unit for mineral analysis.

Additional analytical instruments belonging to other disciplines are also housed within the Science building.