Geology department is proud to be housed in the new science lab building along with excellent equipment for class and laboratory exercises and research projects. Classes are now using computers for exercises. Software packages such as ArcView, Pathfinder, and Rockworks '99 provide needed tools for research. X-ray Defractometer, binocular microscopes, and petrographic microscopes are used in mineral and rock identifications. The weather station is placed on top of new science lab building.
Students observe the changing temperature and wind velocity.
Rock cutting machines provide students and faculty members to trim specimens for thin sections . John M. Shoales mineral display. Minerals and rocks collected by John M. Shoales were donated to the MSC Geology Program. These excellent and beautiful specimens are exhibited in the halls.