CODES – Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences
Other Facilities
Experimental Facilities
Fluid/Melt Inclusion Laboratory
The fluid inclusion facility uses a Linkam MDS600 motor driven stage with a temperature range -196degC to 600degC. The stage is PC controlled using LinkSys software. The attached Olympus BX60 microscope has transmitted (visible), reflected, fluorescent and IR transmitted light capabilities. The melt inclusion facility is equipped with a custom-manufactured, microscope-mounted, low-inertia high-temperature Vernadsky heating stage.
Petrophysics and Thermal Properties Laboratory
Lab measurements on drill core of petrophysical properties like density, resistivity and seismic velocity provide a vital link between rock samples and geophysical field surveys. The UTAS facility has the complete range of standard petrophysical instruments with the addition of rock thermal property instruments important in characterising rocks for geothermal energy exploration.
Geophysical Facilities
Geophysics Field Equipment
The Discipline of Earth Sciences has a near complete range of geophysical field equipment for student and research use including gravimeters, magnetometers, ground penetrating radar and electromagnetic induction instruments for applied, environmental and archaeological geophysics. Passive seismic instruments are also used by staff and research students for technique development and tectonic studies.
Undergraduate Geoscience Computing
Second and third year units in geophysics and computing taught within the Discipline of Earth Sciences introduce students to a wide range of image processing and mapping software. This section contains ‘HOWTO’ guides for frequently undertaken tasks that are taught to undergrads and used throughout many geoscience careers.
Geoscience Computing
Many industry standard, commercial geoscience data analysis programs are available for research use within Earth Sciences and CODES. This section contains an introduction to this evolving facility including ‘HOWTO’ guides for getting started with a new program.
Computational Geophysics
For those who want the flexibility and power of combining their own computer programs with inversion and other data inference codes for research computational geophysics. Researchers within Earth Sciences test and develop a variety of different codes.