THE BERKELEY GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL XRF LABORATORY IS NOW A NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SUPPORTED LABORATORY

• We've received laboratory support to upgrade the XRF facility at Berkeley.

• Current instrumentation:

                Philips PW 2400 wavelength dispersive XRF spectrometer 

                Thermo Quant'X energy-dispersive XRF spectrometer (now running)

Portable XRF Spectrometry

Thermo Scientific NITON XLt 592 Analyzer in the Archaeological Research Facility

This instrument is fully empirically calibrated for ceramic and rock analyses.

Complete sample preparation lab for pressed powder and fused disk samples

We now provide special reduced rates to all National Science Foundation funded projects.

Future expansion includes:

•     Increased standards library
•     In-field analyses

The Berkeley Geoarchaeological XRF Laboratory is the daughter lab of Robert F. Heizer, Ian Charmichael, Robert Jack, and Joachim Hampel, originally housed in the Department of Geology and Geophysics (now the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences).  Students and scholars have access to the full range of EPS instrumentation (SEM, ESEM, microprobe, XRF, XRD, ICP-MS, optical petrography).

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