Facilities and Equipment
 The Geology program is housed in E-Building on the PCC campus. Classes are taught in well-equipped rooms where students have access to specimens, maps, and microscopes for individual use. There is also a Geology Study Room which is open 70 hours per week to students enrolled in geology classes. The room contains a study area, special displays, supplementary laboratory materials, and computers for student use. The Geology Museum hosts a world-class mineral collection which the public is invited to view on an appointment basis. Also, there is a rock sawing and preparation room. A general listing of equipment used in classroom instruction appears below:
Digital Technology
- Apple iMac Computers for student use in geology department class projects
- Smart Classrooms - E211, E205, E220
- Slide Scanners for classroom use
- Digital Cameras for field trip & faculty use
- Digital video and microscope cameras for use in classrooms
- Apple iBook Wireless computers for use in smart classrooms
- Desktop networked PC computers
for geology laboratory exercises
- 42" HP Color design Jet Printer
for creation of teaching materials
Additional Related Equipment
- Plane Tables & Aledaides w/ tripods
- Survey levels w/ tripods
- Binocular and Research Petrographic Microscopes
- Student Petrographic Microscopes
- Stereo Microscopes
- Garmin and Magellan GPS Handheld Instruments
- Trimble 4000SI GPS Instruments
- Trimble cm-scale, back-pack mounted GPS mapping units.
- 12 Channel seismograph
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