Western Paleomagnetic & Petrophysical Laboratory
Dr. Phil J.A. McCausland
wppl@uwo.ca
Biological & Geological Sciences Building 1004
The Western Paleomagnetic & Petrophysical Laboratory was established in 2014 in the Department of Earth Sciences to conduct geophysical research and provide key services in paleomagnetism and petrophysics for industry, academics and other research interests.
WPPL provides the research home for several undergraduate and graduate students in applied geophysics. It operates for contractual services as well, providing sample preparation and a range of petrophysical property measurements on discrete rock samples, obtained from drill core or other sources. Direct petrophysical measurements (magnetics, density, porosity, IP/resistivity, P-wave) made on standard samples offers a complement for downhole or survey-scale geophysical data to help ground truth geophysical models.
Please consult the WPPL Measurement Services document for further information on the range of physical property measurements and applications that we offer. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
Dr. Phil McCausland, Director, WPPL
Helium Pycnometry Reference Sheet
| Services rate sheet cost/sample | Price |
| Sample preparation - regular specimens | $100 |
| Sample preparation - 3D oriented specimens | $200 |
| Wire saw (dry) 0.200 mm kerf cut | $200 + $50/further parallel sample cut |
| Magnetic Susceptibility | $50 |
| Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) | $100 |
| Magnetic remanence (NRM intensity, direction) | $75 |
| Paleomagnetic directional component analysis | $200 |
| Magnetic Coercivity analysis | $200 |
| IP / Resistivity | $75 |
| P-wave acoustic velocity | $50 |
| Density (bulk density by specific gravity) | $50 |
| Grain density (intrinsic material density) | $100 |
Other services & pricing (consultation & analysis, 3D imaging, X-ray CT scan, sample storage for later investigation) can be discussed by request.
Note on sample preparation: Drill core samples or hand samples are drilled to produce at least three cylindrical specimens for each sample. This provides a consistency check for the physical property measurements from any given sample, and produces standard specimens suitable for all analyses listed above.
v. February 2021
