Facilities and instruments:

In addition to standard equipment for a variety of tephra analyses (balance, sonicating bath, oven, sieves, lapidary saw, etc.), our lab also contains the following:

Jeol JSM-6010PLUS/LA InTouchScope scanning electron microscope (SEM)
​Shimadzu Hyper Vision HPV-1 High-Speed Video Camera
Quantachrome Ultrapyc 1200e helium pycnometer*
Malvern Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer (LDPSA)* with Hydrosight (see video to right)  
McCrone micronising mill
QSonica ultrasonic processor
Electro-Tech resistance meter
Conductivity meter
Metler Toledo pH meter
*These instruments are housed in the Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies 

Further facilities at UA include the Radiogenic Isotope Lab, Alabama Stable Isotope Lab, and the Alabama Analytical Research Center.

COMING SOON….A HIGH-VOLTAGE MODULAR TESTING SYSTEM!!!