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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 system housed under 9 ft2 fume canopy
- Logitech LP-50 lapping machine
- Logitech PM2A precision polishing and lapping machine
- Zeiss microscope
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