facilities

The major facilities available at NGRI include

Mineral Physics Laboratory with high-pressure Diamond Anvil Cell (DAC), ultra high resolution (0.02/cm) double monochorometer, and micro-Raman spectrometer.

High-pressure laboratory consisting of Keithly electrometer, strain-measuring sensors, universal testing machine (100 tons), and Bridgeman-Birch high-pressure apparatus.

In-situ stress measurement facility consisting of hydraulic equipment.

Rock magnetism laboratory consisting of astatic magnetometer, digital spinner magnetometer, alternating magnetic field and thermal demagnetizers, high-field and low-field hysteresis and susceptibility meter.

Geochemical laboratory consisting of fully automated X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF), Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS), and Electron Probe Micro Analyzer (EPMA).

Geochronology and isotope geochemistry laboratory with facilities for Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, and Pb-Pb analyses.

EM, Resistivity, and IP Model Laboratories.

Continuous Flow Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer Laboratory (CFIRMS).

Helium Emanometry, Heatflow and Radiometry Laboratory.

Tritium and carbon dating laboratory for groundwater.

Centralized computing facilities: PC-LAN and an array of Sun Workstations.

Thermoluminescence (TR) Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating facility.

Absolute Gravity Lab.

Airborne magnetic and electromagnetic surveys.

The scientific contributions of the Institute have been recognized both at national and international levels. NGRI scientists have received many Fellowships of Academies and national awards like the Padmasri, Bhatnagar Prize, National Mineral Award, FAPCCI Award, FICCI Award, Young Scientist Awards of INSA/CSIR/AP Academy of Sciences, Krishnan Medal of the Indian Geophysical Union, and many more from other scientific organizations. Scientists of the Institute have also received international awards such as the Kharazmi Award of the Government of Iran, as well as the "Lorenz Award Lecture," instituted by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), which was delivered at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco in December 2007. Biographies of several of them have been included in various editions of Who’s Who in the World, Outstanding Scientists of the World, etc