It's been a crazy busy couple of weeks (is it ever not so?). Right now I'm waiting on some samples in an oven. We ground up some rock, added some sodium peroxide and set the samples to bake. Kinda cool.....
Another girl and I are training how to digest our samples for microprobe analysis. By dissolving the rock in acid and sending it through the microprobe, you can get information on the specific chemical make up of the rock and trace chemical changes through time. This is useful when your trying to figure out the paleoclimate/paleogeography/sea level etc. of your study area.
Down side:
Takes at least 5 hours to prepare 11 samples....sucky!
Oh well....back to the grindstone (pardon the pun:)
