Facilities

The Department supports well equipped laboratories that aids in teaching and research activities. Some of the major facilities available are as follows:

Ar-Ar Mass Spectrometer

Electron Probe Micro-Analyser (EPMA)

Inductively Coupled Plasma – Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)

UV and visible spectrophotometer

X-ray Diffractometer (XRD)

Rock-Eval Pyrolyzer

Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS)

Scanning Electron Microscope with Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (SEM-EDS)

Optical systems for transmitted and incident light microscopy

Heat and freezing stages for fluid inclusion studies

Engineering geological test equipments

Micro Laser Raman Spectrometer

Magnetic susceptibility measurement systems and magnetometers

Gravimeter

Digital seismograph

Advanced computational systems

Field Fourier Transform Infra-red Radiometer (FTIR)

Vibration monitor

Five-Channel broad-band Magnetotelluric (MT) equipment

VLF electromagnetic equipment

Multi-electrode Resistivity Imaging System

Softwares

Museum

Museum

Pyrolysis GC-MS

Fission Track

ICP AES

Pyrolysis GC-MS

Qauntachrome Autosorb iQ2

ICP AES

Research grade microscopic with photomicrograph attachment

Rock Triaxial

Sterozoom Binocular Microscope

Besides the departmental infrastructure, students and faculty have access to various facilities of other Departments and Centres. This includes the well equipped Sophisticated Advanced Instrumentation Facility (SAIF) located in the IIT Bombay Campus.