The Geological Sciences building, which has been occupied since 1973, has two stories that cover an area of 1,713 square meters. This building has one lecture theater capable of seating 132 persons, two conference rooms, five laboratory 20 /lecture rooms, two laboratories, twenty staff rooms and one post-graduate student's room. There are also an administrative office, museum, library, rock and mineral specimens store, field equipment store, and a computer room. A second Geological Sciences building with a service area of 3,840 square meters
The Department has teaching/laboratory equipment and facilities that are adequate for 80 students. Students can access the Internet system using modern computer facilities. The academic staff and graduate students are presently engaged in a wide range of research programs. Their activities are backed up by extensive facilities for laboratory and field work. Higher education and research equipment available at the Department includes:
Autobalance
Atomic absorption spectrophotometer
Centrifugal particle size analyzer
Coal petrographic microscope
Computer Laboratory
Frantz isodynamic magnetic separator
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Grain size analysis (Sieve Analysis)
Liquid/plastic limit device
Lose on Ignition(LOI)
Point load tester
Polarizing microscope with built-in camera
Schmidt rebound hammer
Stereo Microscopes
Ultrasonic velocity tester
Ultraviolet and Visible Spectrophotometer
UV-visible-NIR spectrophotometer
Rock and mineral sample preparation facilities for petrographic examination, optical labloratories
X-ray diffractometer
X-ray fluorescence spectrometer
Geophysics Equipment also available in the Department includes:
12-channel seismograph (Bison, Model 8012A)
48-channel seismograph (Geometrics StrataView R Series)
72-channel seismograph(Geometrics Geode 24-ES)
Automated Gravimeter (SCINTREX, Model CG-3)
GNSS(TOPCON FC250,HyPER-SR)
Ground Penetrating Radar 50,100,250,500 MHz
Groundwater-well logging system (OYO, GEOLOGGER-3030, Model-3964A)
IP-resistivity apparatus (SCINTREX, IGS-2/IP-4 & IDC7/2.5KW)
Magnetometer (EDA, Model OMNI IV)
Resistivity meter (ABEM Terrameter SAS 4000)
Resistivity Imaging System (ABEM ES-64)
HP- XW6600, HP-Z820 Workstations for seismic data processing and interpretation
Sun Blade 2000 Workstations for seismic data processing and interpretation