Equipment in MIT Experimental Petrology Laboratory allows us to span a broad range of experimental conditions. The following photos show some of our instrumentation, facilities and activities that we undertake during the course of our experimental studies.
These photos were taken in January 2008 and show many of the improvements that were possible through funding provided by the Instrumentation and Facilities program of the Division of Earth Sciences of the National Science Foundation (EAR-04472040).
1) Graduate student Jay Barr prepares a synthetic rock mixture for conditioning in a high temperature controlled oxygen fugacity gas mixing furnace.
2) Mike Krawczynski and Jay Barr discuss mix preparation.
6) Professor Tim Grove assembling the piston cylinder device in preparation for an experiment.
3) Professor Tim Grove and graduate students Christy Till and Mike Krawczynski discuss petrographic features of a magmatic inclusion from Mt. Shasta volcano.
4) Another view of our Olympus BX51 transmitted/reflected light polarizing microscope with digital camera and imaging software. This devive is an essential part of our operation.
5) Graduate student Christy Till starts a high pressure – high temperature experiment on one of 3 Boyd-England piston cylinder devices in the lab.
7) Jay Barr starting a high temperature – controlled oxygen fugacity experiment in one of 3 gas mixing furnaces in the laboratory.
9) Jay Barr monitoring experimental conditions of the MHC experiment.
8) Jay Barr sealing a MHC (molybdenum hafnium carbide) cold seal pressure vessel used for 200 MPa H2O-saturated experiment on a basalt composition from Newberry Volcano, Oregon.
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