Louisiana Laboratory for Rock Magnetism & Tectonics
History
The lab evolved from humble beginning with just a Kappabridge susceptometer and a few Bartington probes to a decent rock magnetism and paleomagnetism research facility. The first major addition was a new Vibrating Sample Magnetometer acquired with funds from the NSF (award # EAR-0521558). As time passed, I was able to add new capabilities both in sample preparation and recently with a dynamic shield to perform demagnetization experiments. See below for details:
Kappabridge KLY4-S
Low-field instrumentation
•Kappabridge KLY4-S
•Kappabridge KLY3-S
•Bartington MS2 with all probes (2)
•Bartington MS3 with all probes
•SM30 portable susceptometer
•KT9 portable susceptometer
•SM30 portable susceptometer
Vibrating Sample Magnetometer
High-field instrumentation
•Vibrating sample magnetometer, Princeton Magnetic Measurement, 3900-04 fields up to 2.3 T, room temperature
•Impulse magnetizers, ASCScientific 10-30, up to 3 T
Dynamically shielded room
Paleomagnetic instrumentation
•MMFLC shielded room, 2.5 m
•Agico Spinner magnetometer, JR-6
•Dtech 2000 AF demagnetizer
•Agico LDA AF demagnetizer
•Molspin portable spinner magnetometer
•ASCScientific TD48 thermal demagnetizer
Diamond wire saw
Other instrumentation
•GM08 Hirst GM08 portable Hall probe (magnetometer)
•Geometrics G-856 proton precession magnetometer
•Gas and electric portable drills
•MTI STX202A diamond wire saw
•Muffle furnace, up to 1050ºC