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Scientific Ocean Drilling Vessel

Microscopy Laboratory

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Function

The Microscopy laboratory is used by shipboard paleontologists to identify microfossils for dating the sediments.

Instruments

  • Three Zeiss DISCOVERY V8 binocular zoom stereomicroscopes
  • One Zeiss Axioplan microscope equipped for simultaneous transmitted and reflected polarized light viewing, with a large variety of objectives
  • Two Zeiss Axioskop.A1 microscopes equipped for simultaneous transmitted and reflected polarized light viewing, with a large variety of objectives
  • One Zeiss Axiophot microscope equipped for DIC, phase contrast, and fluorescence studies and for cross-polarized light, plane-transmitted light, and darkfield illumination
  • Most microscopes are equipped with SPOT cameras for digital microphotography
  • PICAT to photograph full thin section images in plane- and cross-polarized light

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Microscopy Laboratory