Sedimentology & Gamma Lab Cost Center
The Coastal Geology Lab runs an in-house cost center for both internal and external laboratory analyses. Work that can be completed in this lab includes basic sediment core or sample processing, including grain-size analysis, bulk density, and loss-on-ignition, as well as analysis of short-lived radioisotopes (primarily 210Pb and 137Cs) for derivation of short-term (ca. 100 years) sediment accretion rates.
In addition to basic sedimentological processing tools (balances, muffle furnaces, sieves), this lab houses a Beckman-Coulter Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer (LDPSA) (for fine sand and finer sediments), CamSizer (for sand and coarser particles), and, for gamma analyses, four Low Energy Germanium Detectors (LEGEs), one Broad Energy Germanium Detector (BEGE), one Well-shaped intrinsic Germanium Detector (WEGE), and an octet containing eight alpha detectors.
Please contact Coastal Geology Lab Manager Allyson Boggess for more information and pricing.
