Sedimentology and Petrography Lab

Sedimentology and Petrography Lab

Facilities/Instruments

The sedimentology section of this lab is equipped with a Thin sectioning system to prepare thin section of rock samples, one (1) Trim saw to make accurate cross section cuts through large and heavy pieces of specimens and core samples, one (1) Vacumet to remove the trapped air from the mounting material and eliminate the gap between the specimen and resin during slide preparation, one (1) Magnetic Separator to extract magnetically susceptible minerals from target sample, Two (2) sieve shakers and One (1) laboratory oven for drying the wet samples.

 

The Petrography section is equipped with, fifty (50) Binocular Microscope for thin section analysis, one (1) Leica DM750 broad field Polarizing Microscope with Leica ICC50 E digital microscope camera set-up for taking photos and projection to large screen with LCD projector, one (1) Photo Polarization Microscope for taking picture of thin sections

 

People

Dr. Md. Mostafizur Rahman (Associate Professor)

Shakhawat Hossain (Assistant Professor)

Md. Yousuf Gazi (Assistant Professor)

Research Focus

• Petrographic analysis of geologic materials
• Petrographic and petrophysical study of reservoir rocks
• Petrographic analysis for evaluating the pore system and the efficiency of the pore network
• Petrographic Analysis for Burial History Modeling
• Provenance and compositional maturity of rocks
• Source area weathering and tectonic setting of terrigenous clastic sediments
• Georesource potential evaluation of coarse and fine aggregates

Analyses/Services available

• Grain size analysis
• Identification and separation of light and heavy minerals with their proportion
• Separation of magnetically susceptible minerals from a given sample
• Thin section preparation
• Petrographic examination according to the standards (CSA A23.2-15A or ASTM C295) of rock cores and granular materials (fine and coarse aggregates)
• Petrographic analysis for petroleum reservoir study