The VTSO also publishes an annual bulletin summarizing the previous year's seismicity throughout the southeastern U.S. and has put together catalogs of earthquakes including preinstrumentally recorded events in Virginia. Scanning electron microscope with facilities for selected-area electron channelling pattern analysis. Video digitizing system for morphometric analysis. A full range of research grade binoculers and high magnification transmitted light microscopes. Other analytical facilities are available in the Department of Geological Sciences and include a microprobe, X-ray machines and a wide selection of other equipment.
Graduate students have offices in the lab complex.
The FRL is composed of the Fluid Inclusion Laboratory, the Vibrational Spectroscopy Laboratory, and the Hydrothermal Laboratory. The Fluid Inclusion Laboratory contains state of the art equipment for studying melt and fluid inclusions in natural and synthetic materials. Five research-grade petrographic microscopes and complete still and video photography equipment are available for use with any of the microscopes and stages. Two cold-seal vessels arranged for in situ fracturing of quartz cores are available for synthetic fluid inclusion studies. A large volume internally heating pressure vessel that operates to 1,000 Celsius and 10,000 bars has recently been added.