Thin Section Lab on Fo'c's'le Deck
Overview
The Thin Section lab provides equipment for making thin sections of lithified and nonlithified materials.
Instruments
- Buehler Petrothin thin section cutting blade and cup wheel
- Logitech LP-50 lapping machine
- Logitech PM5 precision polishing and lapping machine
- Zeiss microscope
- Beuhler grinder/polisher MetaServe 250
Manuals
Flattening Thin Section Billets
Bonding Billets to Frosted Slides
Cutting Billets with PetroThin
How Disassemble the Logitech Jigs
Carbonate Staining with Alizarin Red
Dickson 1965_Nature_Carbonate staining for thin sections
Archive Manuals
FlatteningThinSectionBillets 2020.pdf
BondingBilletstoFrostedSlides 2020.pdf
CuttingBilletswithPetroThin 2020.pdf
POLISHINGSAMPLESONPM5 2020.pdf
EndofExpeditionCleanup 2020.pdf
QuickGuideTSLaserEngraver 2020.pdf
HOWTOTAKEAPARTTHELOGITECHJIGS 2020.pdf
CarbonateStainingwithAlizarinRed 2020.pdf