Department of Geology and Geophysics
 

Surface Processes/Geochronology

People:

   Professors:

• Lesley Perg

St. Anthony Falls Laboratory

• Subsiding-floor basin for experimental stratigraphy (original design and the only one in the world)
• 2x3x80 m main experimental channel
• 1 m tilting flume
• 2 m stream table
• 3 m deep ëfish tankí channel for submarine flows

Numerous smaller experimental channels

Morphoanalysis Lab

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS):
• ArcInfo and ArcView
• Grass
• Numerical modeling: MatLab
• High-resolution scanner for digital capture
• Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR):
• pulseEKKO with 50, 100, and 200 MHz antennas
• Win_EKKO and EKKO_3D processing programs
• Differential Global Positioning System (GPS):
• Precision GPS Receiver
• Reference Station
• Total station: pulsed laser range-finding system

Quaternary Chronology Preparation Lab

• Preparation facilities for:
• Cosmogenic radionuclides 10Be and 26Al
• Cosmogenic noble gases 3He and 21Ne
• (U/Th)-He thermochronology

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