ICP Laboratory
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Spectro Ciros CCD with simultaneous spectrum measurement and wavelength range of 125nm to 770nm, with radial viewing capabilities. Purchased 2002. F&M students and faculty use on our Spectro Ciros inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectrometer to perform elemental analysis for course and research projects. Students enrolled in Earth, Environment and Humanity, Geo 114, use the ICP lab to study the problem of lead and other heavy metal contamination in older urban drinking water systems. Students in Sedimentlogy and Stratigraphy, Geo 324, use ICP to study trace elements in calcite cements to better understand depositional and burial conditions. |
Examples of student research projects that used ICP include:
SUNDERLIN, KIMBERLY Diagenetic Alterations in Carbonate Glacial Lake Sediments; Hardin, County, Ohio
FLORA, NATALIE A Comparative Study of the Preparation of Apatite Derivatives
FEDORS NATHAN The Synthesis of Transition Metal Apatites
DARTER, JESSICA Modern Sedimentation of a Proglacial, Ice-contact Lake, Mendenhall Lake, Juneau, Alaska
BRUNO, CAROLINE R. Cement Stratigraphy within the Ledger Formation (Middle Cambrian), York County, Pennsylvania
MURPHY, MEGAN Grainstone Beds within Cambrian Shelf Margin Microbialites, the Ledger Formation, York County, Pennsylvania
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