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 

 1 Spectrace/Thermo QuanX energy-dispersive XRF spectrometers 

                Thermo QuantX energy-dispersive XRF spectrometer (now running)

Complete sample preparation lab for pressed powder and fused disk samples

The older Spectrace instruments will be retired in the near future and is for sale now.

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

Future expansion includes:

•     Portable XRF instrumentation
•     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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