![Annotated photo of IGL mass spectrometers when looking into lab window](/sites/igl/files/styles/21_9_placeholder_/public/images/2023/HallVierwAngle4.jpg?h=9afd3fa2&itok=JX-lXHW9)
Lab Window View of Our Mass Spectrometers
We use these three machines for analyzing very small amounts of isotopes for solving geologic problems and for doing geochronology. A common use for these analyses is to do determine U-Pb radiometric age dates of the mineral zircon.