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Radiogenic Isotope Lab Nears Completion
A unique laboratory focusing on marine geology and global tectonics in Texas A&M University’s College of Geosciences is near completion after four years of planning and construction.
Located in the Michel T. Halbouty Geosciences Building, the $1.9 million Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory, on which construction began in October, that will be used for interdisciplinary research and teaching in marine geology and global tectonics. The facility will contain “clean” and “ultra-clean” chemistry laboratories – categorized as class 1000 and class 100 respectively – a mass spectrometry lab, a sample preparation lab, a facility work room and technician office and two faculty offices. The chemistry laboratories will allow contamination-free chemical preparation of samples for analyses of heavy isotopes such as uranium, thorium, lead and strontium.