{"id":28,"date":"2015-12-26T11:31:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T16:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/ztaylor\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2017-08-15T21:31:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T02:31:37","slug":"paleoenvironments-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/ztaylor\/paleoenvironments-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Paleo Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Paleo Lab at Berry supports a variety of research centered on the analysis of soils and sediments.<\/p>\n

Lab Equipment
\n<\/strong>Presently, the lab has a commercial refrigerator for sample storage and equipment to support a wide variety of geochemical analyses, macroscopic charcoal analysis, pollen sample processing, and preparation of samples for various isotopic analyses. \u00a0The lab also has compound and dissecting microscopes that are used for counting charcoal fragments, identifying macrofossils, palynologic analysis, and other applications.<\/p>\n

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Compound and Dissecting Microscopes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Elsa, our commercial refrigerator and core storage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fume hood, furnace, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Field Equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lab is able to collect sediments with four different coring devices.\u00a0 A specially-modified plastic tube corer is used to collect soft sediments in less than 10m of water.\u00a0 Deeper sediments in water of similar depth are collected using a Livingstone piston corer.\u00a0 For deep-water applications, sediments are collected with a custom-made gravity corer, including the capability of recovering multiple cores from the same hole. \u00a0We also have a Russian peat borer for collecting material from bogs and fens.<\/p>\n

The lab also has the necessary equipment to construct a coring platform and transport sediment.<\/p>\n

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Gravity corer for deep lakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Livingstone corer for shallow sediments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Plastic tube corer for soft sediments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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