Facilities
Where worlds are recreated and analyzed.
The lab pairs high-pressure, high-temperature experimental petrology equipment and cutting-edge analytical instruments with a world-class meteorite collection. Together these let us understand the conditions, formation, and evolution of the earliest Solar System objects.
High P-T experiments
- Two end-loaded piston-cylinders.
- 1 Kawai-style multi-anvil press.
- 3 Deltech gas-mixing furnaces.
- Several box furnaces.
Sample preparation
- 10-ton hand press.
- Several lathes.
- M-Prep 5™ grinding and polishing machine.
- Cressington high-vacuum carbon coater and metal evaporator.
- Ion milling system IM4000.
- WELL diamond wire saws.
- Computer-controlled pulsed near-IR laser cutter.
Analytical facilities
The Earth Materials Characterization Center (EMC2) is a world-class microscopy and spectroscopy facility equipped with:
- JEOL 8530F FEG Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA).
- Hitachi ultra-high-resolution Schottky scanning electron microscope (SEM) SU7000.
- Raman spectrometer: Horiba-Jobin Yvon HR-800.
- Infrared spectrometer (FTIR): Excalibur FTS 3000 with UMA 600 microscope.
- X-ray powder diffractometer: Rigaku MiniFlex 600.
Peabody Museum
The Yale Peabody Museum's Division of Mineralogy & Meteoritics oversees a scientifically and historically important collection of nearly 23,000 meteorites, including 1,819 meteorite type specimens and 18,881 unclassified meteorites.
Departmental facilities
The Yale Metal Geochemistry and Geochronology Center is a world-class trace element facility equipped with:
- One Thermo-Finnigan Multi-Collector ICP-MS (Neptune Plus).
- One Thermo-Finnigan Element XR ICP-MS.
- One Thermo Finnigan Triton Plus multi-collector TIMS.
- One Thermo Scientific iCAP TQ ICP-MS.
The lab's workspace consists of two separate metal-free Picotrace class-ten clean rooms, which together contain 12 hoods and 12 dry-down stations.