Welcome to the isotope geochemistry lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The lab features a newly-renovated class 1000 clean lab with seven class 100 workstations, a separate dedicated class 100 U-Pb zircon lab, and a fully automated VG Sector 54 mass spectrometer with eight adjustable faraday cups and a Daly ion-counting photomultiplier system. We routinely analyze isotopes of Sr, Rb, Nd, Sm, Pb and U from rocks, minerals, water, sediment, fossils, and biogenic material.
Subsidiary labs contain rock crushing equipment, mineral picking under binocular microscopes, and mineral separation facilities. Access to the department's scanning electron microscope is extremely useful for mineral identification and observing microstructures in zircon grains.
Take a tour of the isotope geochemistry facilities
For additional information about our mass spectrometry facilities contact:
Department of Geological Sciences
325 Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315
email: dcoleman@email.unc.edu
telephone: (919) 962-0705
fax: (919) 966-4519
