The Geology Department is housed in the first and ground floors of Palenske and Putnam Halls of the Albion Science Complex, renovated/built in 2006.  The Albion Science Complex includes four buildings connected on four levels with a 4 story atrium at the center of the complex.   Key features of the department include:

1. State-of-the-art teaching/research laboratories

2. Extensive mineral/fossil/rock and map collections

3. Laboratory instrumentation, including ICP-AES, XRF, and XRD spectrometers

4. Abundant field sampling and surveying equipment

5. Geology Shop for sample preparation

Teaching/Research Laboratories

• 2 Introductory Geology Labs

• GIS Lab with 15 Dell GX280 Optiplex PCs

• J Harlen Bretz Surficial Geology Lab, with 3 3'x7' stream tables, a 4' hydrologic flume, 10 Leica stereomicroscopes, soils analysis equipment, and  nine TOPCON MS-3 mirror stereoscopes

• Mineralogy/Petrology lab, with 10 new Leica student petrographic microscopes and a research-grade Olympus Petrographic microscope with a digital imaging system. 

• Environmental Geology and Geochemistry Lab

• General Advanced Lab

• Lawrence D. Taylor Undergraduate Research Laboratory.

• Inductively coupled plasma/atomic emission spectrometer model JY-38-S
• X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, Rigaku RIX 2100
• X-ray diffractometer, Rigaku Minflex XRD
• Micrometrics SediGraph 5100 particle analyzer

Field Sampling and Surveying Equipment

Hydrological Sampling and Measuring Field Equipment:

• Isco 6712 Automated Sampler
• Two Pygmy AA USGS Current Meters with Wadding Rods and Aqua Calcs
• YSI  6600 Multi-Parameter Water Quality Monitor
• YSI 600 Optical Multi-Parameter Sonde
• Two Quanta Water Quality Monitors
• 7 Solinst Leveloggers

Surveying, GPS and Field Mapping Equipment

• Multiple Trimble GPS antennas, receivers and transmitters.
• Leica Total Station
• 2 Advantage Laser Atlanta Laser Range Finders
• 20 Dell Axim X50v PDAs with Otter Box Field Armor
• Over 50 Brunton Compasses

Geology Shop

• Logitec CL30 Precision Lapping Machine                     

• Tile Master rock saw

• Logitec CW30 Trim Saw

• Comco Micro Blaster

• Two Lab Ovens  

• Carver Pellet Hydraulic Press  

• Spex 4200 Jaw Crusher

• Two Spex Mixer/Mills

• Isomet Low Speed Saw

• Frantz Magnetic Separator