The range and scope of our technical facilities are large. Besides the specific equipment mentioned below, many individual professors have working arrangements with colleagues in a variety of other schools and institutions whereby they and their students can benefit from exchanges, free analyses or free use of equipment. The geological sciences department has facilities for rock cutting and crushing, preparing polished sections and for drafting and photography. Brand new Olympus petrographic microscopes and photomicrograph facilities are available to graduate students.
Students can also borrow geology field instruments and some camping equipment.
We have excellent computing facilities , ranging from the university mainframe to microcomputers. There are three computing rooms in the college, housing microcomputers and terminals for student use. We also have a separate geochemical laboratory for routine analysis and dissolution, an ore laboratory unit with a full range of fluid inclusion equipment, a mineralogy research laboratory, and a geochemical preparation laboratory for rock crushing and mineral separation. The geophotography and remote sensing laboratory houses a collection of aerial photographs as well as geologic and topographic maps. The available equipment will take slides, prints and contact prints, make enlargements, develop and reproduce slides and transfer geologic data onto topographic maps.