Research facilities

Observation apparatus

• Heating-freezing stages (LINKAM LK-600PM and another)

• Digital photomicrograph systems (Nikon DIGITAL CAMERA Hc 300i and others)

• Polarizing microscopes (Nikon MICROPHOT)

• SEMs (HITACHI S-2380N and another)

• Luminoscope (Premier American Technologies)

Analyzers

• EPMAs (JEOL JXA-8900 and another)

• XRDs (RIGAKU 2013 and others)

• 高輝度XRD (RIGAKU RINT-SWXD)

• XRF (RIGAKU System3070E)

• 示差熱天秤-質量分析同時測定装置 (RIGAKU TG-DTA/GC-MS)

• Inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometer (ICP-AES) (Seiko Instruments Inc. SPS7000A)

• Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (SHIMADZU FTIR8200PC)

• 微小部XRD (RIGAKU PSPC-MDG2000)

• IC分析装置 (横河電機 IC500)

• Fluorophotometer (HITACHI F4500)

• Ultraviolet and visible spectrophotometer (SHIMADZU UV-3100PC)

• Thermogravimetric-differential thermal analyzer (RIGAKU TG8110D)

• Atomic absorption photometer (Seiko Instruments Inc. SAS-760)

• 時間分解フォトルミネッセンス蛍光分光光度計 (堀場製作所 NAES-700　一式)

• Portable XRF (Seiko Instruments Inc. SEA2001)

• Thermal analyzer (Seiko Instruments Inc. SSC5000 and others)

• 表面粗計 (Kosaka Lab. SE1700)

• Image analyzer (Nikon LUZEX 3)

Sample preparation machines

• Ion polishing machine for TEM (Gatan Model 691 PIPS)

• Automatic cut-off machine (Struers Unitom-5)

• Rock-glinding machines

• Cut-off machines (Maruto Instrument Co., Ltd.)

• Precision cutting and grinding machines for thin sections (Struers Discoplan-TS)

• Diamond-polishing machines (Marumoto Struers K.K.)

• 振動試料粉砕装置 (Heiko Ti-100)

• Stamp mill (Nitto Kagaku Co., Ltd. ANS143)

• Isodinamic separator

• 全自動ガラスビード試料作成装置 (西村製作所)

• Ultracentrifugal separator (BECKMAN L7-35)

• Centrifugal separator (KUBOTA 2100 and others)

Specimens and Books

[Specimens]

Four thousand five hundred specimens of minerals and ores (e.g. jade, sulfur, and cinnabar).

Extant shell specimens.
(the Shikama Collection (900 specimens) and the Ishiyama Collection (700 specimens))

Eight thousand molluscan fossils from Cretaceous sequences in Hokkaido, Japan.

Two sets of educational rock and fossil specimens, etc.

Earth Science rock garden (at the side of the Building no. 14)

[Books]

• Seventy international journals and forty Japanese journals.

• A hundred and forty annals of universities and research institutes.

[Publication]

• Gakujutsu Kenkyu (Academic Studies) ,
  Biology and Earth Sciences, School of Education, Waseda University. (issued annually)