These laboratories contain standard equipment for analyses of lake cores including drying ovens, muffle furnace, freeze drier, microscopes, centrifuges, water baths, balances, sieves, and equipment for thin-section preparation. In addition, there are facilities for the analysis of smear slides, thin-sections, organic matter and carbonate content, biogenic silica, etc. The Sedimentology Laboratory has an automated magnetic susceptibility track with a Bartington Susceptibility meter and a ME2EI sensor as well as a variety of loop sensors and computers. A full-spectrum light box and digital camera are available for archiving core features and for measuring gray-scale and color changes. Facilities are available for the extraction and isolation of sediment cellulose, diatoms, and pollen. The laboratory includes a 200-square-foot cold room for archiving samples and cores. An AMS radiocarbon preparation line is dedicated for work on lacustrine samples, and can also be used to prepare samples for d13C measurements.

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