Other high pressure laboratories:
COMPRES (Consortium for Materials
Properties Research in Earth Sciences)
Bayerisches Geoinstit
Depths of the Earth Lab (Arizona State)
MIT Experimental Petrology
Caltech Experimental Petrology
Magma Factory
(TIT, Japan)
Institute for Study of the Earth's
Interior (Misasa, Japan)
Geophysical Lab (Carnegie Insitution of Washington)
ETH (Zurich)
GSECARS
HPCAT
Other geochemistry/petrology labs/sites:
DTM/Carnegie Geochemistry
WHOI Ion Probe Lab
Marc Spiegelman's
Usercalc page (for calculating Spiegelman/Elliott U-series disequilibrium
during partial melting.
Caveat Emptor)
Bristol Isotope Geochemistry
Maryland Isotope Geochemistry
Lab
How to find an Earth Science Department:
Geoscience Departments WWW Directory
- U.S. & Canada
European
Geoscience Institutes (a list of web pages for most geoscience departments/institutes
in Europe)
MARGINS and RIDGE home pages:
MARGINS
RIDGE2000
Petrologic/geochemical databases:
MELTS
Of course, our very own
LEPR (Library
of Experimental Phase Relations)
PETDB Rocks of the Ocean Floor
Georoc database (Mainz)
Oceanic Island Basalts, Mantle Rocks, island arc rocks, and...
NAVDAT (Western North American Volcanic
and intrusive rock database)
GERM (Geochemical Earth Reference Model)
(and associated EarthRef.org pages)
Geokem (database of major and trace elements
in igneous rocks)
PETROS Igneous
Petrology Databank (database of major element chemical analyses of igneous rocks)
WHOI noble metal database
(Some of the links above are taken from the very useful
PETDB
Tools Page)
Here are some links of practical use to Experimental Petrology
Labs: (no endorsements are implied)
Rockland Research (end-loaded
piston cylinder and multi anvil devices)
Depths of the Earth (non-end-loaded
piston cylinder devices)
Deltech (high temperature one
atmosphere tube furnaces)
Buehler (grinding and polishing equipment)
Allied High-Tech (grinding
and polishing equipment, cheaper than Buehler)
Daigger (general lab supplies)
VWR (general lab Supplies)
Matheson Tri-gas (supplies for setting
up gas mixing apparatus)
Structure Probe Inc. (supplies
for electron microscopy, a good source of those very delicate tweezers)
McMaster-Carr (tools, raw materials, the
kitchen sink, etc.; if they don't sell it, it probably doesn't exist)
labequip.com (used lab equipment
- balances, microscopes, ovens, etc.)
Other Interesting Stuff: (links
to pages of links...how derivative!)
Join the
ExPet Yahoo group
(not run by us)
LPI's
links for Planetary Science Web sites
U of Oregon page of
worldwide
microprobe labs and resources
Basaltic Volcanism on the Terrestrial
Planets (an entire book online!)
Know of more? Let us know at hirsc022@...
Replace ... with @umn.edu to email.