Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 10. May 21 1979
Floor2
Floor2
Volcanoes and Antarctica
Second Floor, cross corridor
Volcanoes: | Types, formation, occurrence in New Zealand and overseas, various rock types associated with them. This display supplemented by automatic slide projector. |
Antarctic: | Display of rocks, formations, fossils and equipment. |
Both these displays on the 2nd floor cross corridor.
Earth Sciences Elementary Laboratory
This laboratory will be open with members of staff in attendance. In addition to rock and mineral display, several actual practical exercises undertaken by Geol 101 and 131 classes will be demonstrated.
Petrology Laboratory
Static displays of rocks, minerals, both in hand specimen and under the microscope. Display of antique microscopes. Explanation of common penological, mineralogical and erystallographic techniques. Closed circuit TV will demonstrate such aspects as birefringence, extinction, interference figures etc.
Paleontology Laboratory
Displays of fossils. Techniques for extracting, examining, identifying, dating etc. Students will demonstrate actual second and third year laboratory classes in paleontology and petroleum geology.
McKay Room (Museum)
Biography of McKay
Petroleum Geology in New Zealand with specimen oils, model drilling rig and explanation of exploration procedures. The formation of oil, the requirements for an oil "field" to establish, prospecting for oil, the extraction of oil.
The main field — discovery, extraction rates, potential. Rock and mineral exhibits.
- Geology
- Faulting
- Soils.
An early X-ray Diffraction machine working. Explanation on how X rays are used to determine mineral identification.
Technical Suite
Rooms A213, A209, A206, A210, A207, A208
Rocks and minerals
Diamond saws and grinding laps in use and explanations of how rock sections are produced thin enough for light to be passed through them for the examination of mineral content, structure and composition of rock etc.
Polishing laps in use showing the production of polished sections of rock and minerals.
Large diamond saw for cutting display specimens.
Graphic Reproduction
Process camera, plate maker, printing machine and plan printer — showing map production for Department and publication use.
Antarctic Room
Display of Antarctic publications, maps and gear. Antarctic experts in attendance.
Sedimentary Laboratory
Static displays on sedimentology. Hopefully we should have our new flow channel working. Ours is some 25 feet long with a 15 foot long 12" x 15" glass-sided channel so that you can see erosion and deposition in the channel floor as it happens. The 5hp pump can produce water in the channel at up to 1 metre per second. This apparatus was constructed entirely in our Physics Workshop.
We have also just taken delivery of a Sedigraph 5000, a small cabinet that produces a complete size analysis of soil, mud or industrial powders from 600 down to 0.1 microns in a matter of minutes. The instrument has been available for only four or five years and is one of three in the country, costing almost $20,000.