Geosciences Facilities

The Biogeochemistry Laboratory in the Geosciences department at USU analyzes carbon in a variety of ecosystems and in different forms and materials (e.g. soil, water, air).

The Geology building on USU's Logan campus, located on the northeast corner of the Quad.

The Agilent 8900 Triple-Quadrupole ICP-MS is an instrument that can analyze elemental abundances and ratios, and some isotope systems at extremely high precision and low detection limits.

Located at the USU Innovation Campus, the Luminescence Lab is equipped with two automated TL/OSL dating systems (Risø TL/OSL-DA-20A/B), including a laser-driven single-grain attachment that allows for the dating of individual sand grains.

The M2SL is designed for mineral and rock textural and geochemical characterization, as well as preparation for other complementary analytical techniques.

The Museum of Geology is located on the second floor of the Geology Building, in room 203. The museum is free and is open Monday - Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm.

The USU Rock Deformation and Earthquake Mechanics laboratory is equipped with apparatuses and data acquisition instrumentation to perform a broad range of brittle deformation experiments on rock and sediment samples.

The USU Geosciences Stable Isotope Laboratory is equipped for analyses of the “light stable isotopes” in a wide variety of materials.