Analytical Services
Oolithica Geoscience provides the following analytical services through a combination of in-house and third party providers:
Sedimentological core logging
Fracture core logging
Petrographic thin section preparation
Thin section petrography (qualitative or semi-quantitative)
Cold and Hot Stage Cathodoluminescence
Fluorescence petrography
Scanning electron micrography (including optional pore cast analysis)
X-ray diffraction (whole rock and clay fraction)
Fluid inclusion analysis (microthermometry, salinity and major ion determination)
Heavy mineral analysis
Apatite fission track analysis
Isotopic analyses (Carbon, oxygen, sulphur and strontium isotopes; K/Ar dating; ICP-MS)
Elemental analyses (ICP-MS, ICP-AES)
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| Fluid inclusion in cement overgrowth. These are used to determine temperature of formation and formation water salinity | Cold Cathodoluminescence image showing burial (orange) cements enclosed by non-luminescenct freshwater calcite cement |