The Rooney Geochronology Clean Lab spaces are part of the Yale Metals Geochemistry Center and are equipped with all-plastic fume hoods, laminar flow benches and casework, centrifuges, manual and semi-automated columns for trace element separation. Our analytical capabilities include a Thermo Fisher Neptune-Plus MC-ICP-MS, a Thermo Fisher Triton-Plus TIMS, a Thermo Fisher Element-XR ICP-MS, and a Thermo Fisher iCAP TQ ICP-MS. All of the ultra-clean and mass spectrometer laboratories are under positive air pressure with respect to the building hallways and have controlled temperature and humidity levels. The Geochemistry Center is adjacent to the Microprobe Facility, which houses a JEOL Hyperprobe electron microprobe. Both the Metal Geochemistry Center and the Microprobe Facility have full-time technicians.

The department also maintains a standard sample preparation facility, which has saws, clean powdering mills, and updated machinery to make thin sections, and a petrography center, which has a scanning electron microscope with a technician and several light microscopes.