Yale Metal Geochemistry Center

The newly established Metal Geochemistry Center at Yale University (run by PI Planavsky) has a world-class trace element facility. The lab is equipped with 12 hoods and 12 dry down stations within a metal free Picotrace class ten clean room designed for trace element geochemistry. This includes two perchloric acid hoods for efficient total rock digests. The center also houses several high sensitivity and precision inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers. We house a Thermo Finnigan Neptune multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and a recently installed Thermo Finnigan Neptune-Plus multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer  and a Thermo Finnigan Element XR magnetic sector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. Any of these mass spectrometer can be coupled with a New Wave laser ablation system. The Metal Geochemistry Center is adjacent to the Microprobe Facility, which houses a JEOL Hyperprobe electron microprobe. Both the Metal Geochemistry Center and the Microprobe Facility have full time technicians. Partial lab maintenance costs are provided by the Department of Geology and Geophyiscs. Images and additional information on the lab facility can be found at http://icpmslab.geology.yale.edu.

The department also has and maintains a standard sample preparation facility, which has saws, clean powdering mills, and updated machinery to make thin sections, and a petrography center, which has a scanning electron microscope with a technician and several light microscopes.

Our people:

Michael Henehan

Bleuenn Gueguen

Xiangli Wang