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The Department is equipped with a wide range of laboratory and field facilities for both teaching and research purposes. A well equipped computer laboratory with networking as well as geological and geophysical modelling software is also available for students who are encouraged to use microprocessing techniques for analysis of their data.

Major teaching and research equipment include an Electronprobe Microanalyzer, an X-ray Diffraction System, an Atomic Absorption Spectrometer with a graphite furnace, a Micro Gravity Meter, a twelve channel Seismograph and a Magnetometer.  A MPV Microscope Photometer , an Image Analyser and a Particle Size Analyser are also available for research work. Macro and micro photography facilities are also available within the Department which has extensive drafting facilities. 

Excellent teaching petrological, reflected and transmitted light microscopes, as well as stereoscopes and a large reference collection of topographic and geological maps, rocks, minerals and fossils are available for undergraduates and post-graduate students.

Facilities for the preparation of rock slabs, rock thin-sections and polished sections are available and include rock saws of various diameters and an automatic polishing.

The Department library is also well stocked with a wide variety of recent geological books and literature and has accesss to the Main Library of the University which has the largest collection of books in the region.

Electronprobe Microanalyzer -EPMA  --  Accurate  spot ( ~ 1 micron) analysis (from Be to U ).  Both qualitative and quantitative analysis by wavelength dispersion spectrometry (WDS) and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS).

Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (GFAAS) --  Flame AAS with graphite furnace for elemental analysis from solutions and suspensions.                   

MPV Microscope Photometer  -- The MPV Microscope Photometer is a microscope system primarily set up for the purpose of qualitative and quantitative description of organic material in rocks, the results of which are used in coal/petroleum geology for information on source rocks (rocks which generate oil and gas).  Among the anlayses that the system can perform include: coal maceral characterisation, kerogen typing, vitrinite reflectance and fluorences study.

Image Analyser -- The KS400 Image Analyzer is used for carrying out quantitativ petrographic analysis of rocks and minerals. Modal mineral percentages of rocks and ores including textural characteristics of mineral grains can be determined. Textural characteristics of mineral grains which include grain size, roundness or sphericity, ferret size etc., can be analyzed.

Micro Gravity Meter -- Determination of subsurface structures 

Geology Lecture Hall	Computer Laboratory	Geology Library