Sample Preparation: Storing and Archiving Samples are dried and bagged in labeled envelopes, then placed in storage boxes.
Water Based Mud		$2.50
Oil Based Mud		$3.50
Lithographic Washing
Water Based Mud		$3.00
Oil Based Mud		$4.50
Lithographic Description
Relative quantities of sandstone, shale, carbonate and coal are recorded		$5.00
Repacking of Dried Drill Cuttings		$2.00
Sample Splitting and Repackaging		$2.00
Foraminifera Sample Preparation From Drill Cuttings
Water Based Mud		$5.00
Oil Based Mud		$6.00
Calcereous Nannofossil Slide Preparation from Drill Cuttings		$6.00

Processing Description:

Lithologic Washing -
Lith wash is the removal of drilling muds and/or contaminants with water and soap solution.

Foraminifera -
Forams are fossilized acellular or unicellular marine animals having developed some sort of test, of chitin, agglutinated material, or of calcareous or rarely siliceous material secreted by the animal. A geological range stretching from the very earliest Cambrian through to the present day is characterized by varying patterns of evolution. Processing samples for forams is a fast and efficient tool for age dating and correlation.

Calcareous Nannoplankton -
Calcareous nannofossils are complexly constructed, skeletal elements. They have been produced chiefly by oceanic plankton. There has been an exponential increase in nannoplankton studies in the last two decades, largely owing to the recognition of usefulness of this group for biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental interpretations. Calcareous nannofossils can be a fast and efficient tool for age dating. No acids, bases or solvents are used in processing. The sample is crushed and mixed with water. A slide is made from the mixture.