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GEOLOGY CENTER
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ANDERSON GEOLOGY MUSEUM |
The Norton Geology Center was opened in the fall of 1980.
after careful renovation of the Carnegie Library building that was
built on campus in 1904. Named for William Harmon Norton, founder
of Cornell's geology program. This outstanding teaching facility
includes fully equipped teaching and research laboratories; computer
lab including GIS, scanner, digitizer and plotter; document and
map libraries; drafting, rock and thin section preparation, geochemistry
laboratory, alpha spectrometry lab, air abrasive unit, balance, and photographic processing
rooms. An XRD is housed in the Chemistry Department. Specimen repositories
offer full and ready access to the department's extensive collections
of rocks, minerals, and fossils, including 4000 catalogued minerals
1000 catalogued rocks 3000 catalogued fossils 1000 research mineral
suites from 16 localities in Iowa, and several suites from outside
Iowa.
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The Anderson Geology Museum forms the core of the three-story
center. Opened to the public in the summer of 1981, the museum gives the
visitor a progressive understanding of our geologic heritage, and graphically
demonstrates how scientists analyze the geologic past and present in order
better to manage our geologic future. Detailed displays and models represent
the earth's processes of formation and development, illustrate the latest
techniques for studying geologic history and predicting the geologic future,
and stress geology's interrelationships with other sciences and with our
everyday lives.
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