Overview

The Thin Section lab provides equipment for making thin sections of lithified and nonlithified materials.

Instruments

• Buehler Petrothin thin section system housed under 9 ft² fume canopy
• Logitech LP-50 lapping machine
• Logitech PM2A precision polishing and lapping machine
• Zeiss microscope

Manuals

Logitech LP 50

Frosting Slides

Flattening Thin Section Billets

Bonding Billets to Frosted Slides

Cutting Billets with PetroThin

Lapping Samples on LP50

Polishing Samples on PM5

End of Expedition Cleanup

Quick Guide TS Laser Engraver

How Disassemble the Logitech Jigs

Carbonate Staining with Alizarin Red

Dickson 1965_Nature_Carbonate staining for thin sections

Archive Manuals

LogitechLP50SetUp 2020.pdf

FrostingSlides 2020.pdf

FlatteningThinSectionBillets 2020.pdf

BondingBilletstoFrostedSlides 2020.pdf

CuttingBilletswithPetroThin 2020.pdf

LAPPINGSAMPLESONLP50 2020.pdf

POLISHINGSAMPLESONPM5 2020.pdf

EndofExpeditionCleanup 2020.pdf

QuickGuideTSLaserEngraver 2020.pdf

HOWTOTAKEAPARTTHELOGITECHJIGS 2020.pdf

CarbonateStainingwithAlizarinRed 2020.pdf