Facilities

The Earlham Geosciences Department occupies the entire third floor of Dennis Hall where all of its equipment and lab space is available for Geosciences student classroom and research use. In its teaching mission the Department owns and uses:

• over 12,000 rock, mineral and fossil specimens
  
• maps of nearly every type
  
• petrographic and incident light binocular microscopes
  
• digital and light cameras
  
• other laboratory and field equipment
  
• outstanding library holdings
  
• a new geochemistry laboratory
  
• X-ray diffraction system
  
• X-ray spectroscopy system
  
• GPS field instruments

Computer instrumentation has become a vital part of modern Geosciences, and the Department is well-equipped with Internet-connected hardware, including a large scale plotter and software. GIS has become a part of some upper-level courses.

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This page last updated: August 2, 2005