Imaging

The core of this laboratory is a Microscope Slide Scanner, which provides high-resolutions scans of thin sections or other microscopic samples. These virtual samples can be analyzed digitally in the Zeiss ZEN software and are used to get detailed overviews of samples, to make publication-quality figures, and to do more advanced image analysis. The scanner is complemented by two high-end petrographic microscopes. All instruments are part of the Goldschmidt Laboratory.

The Friction and Interface Lab is used in Earth Science to analyse rock samples, and other geo-materials, biological samples could also be analysed. The laboratory was newly upgraded in the past 3 years and interconnects with the Flow Laboratory at the Dept. of Physics. Together they provide high quality analyses for UIO researchers and external partners. The lab also provides teaching at the Dept. of Geosciences.

The department hosts two scanning electron microscopes (SEM). One is a high-end variable pressure FEG-SEM with dual EDS and high-resolution EBSD and cathodoluminescence (CL) system, the other one a smaller, tabletop SEM that is quick to set up and easy to use. The electron microscopes are used by researchers and students from a range of fields: sedimentology, environmental, petroleum, isotope- and structural geology, petrology, mineralogy, and micro-paleontology.