The facility for experimental petrology centers on an array of 18 cold-seal pressure vessels capable of extended operation to 850C at 200 MPa. Other furnaces are present for work to 1800C at 1 atm and are used for the fabrication of glasses.
Electron
Microprobe
The Electron Microprobe Laboratory centers around a Cameca SX-50 microbeam
analyzer. The instrument carries 5 wavelength-dispersive x-ray spectrometers
for elemental analysis of all elements heavier than Be. The latest upgrades
of operating system, energy-dispersive x-ray analyzer, and a cathodoluminescence
detector custom fabricated for our machine (the first and only such CLD
on an SX-50 from Oxford Instruments) make this the most capable instrument
of its type in the world.
Details at:
http://research.ou.edu/microprobe/ouemplhome.asp
