Facilities for geology in Science Hall include five laboratories for elementary and advanced courses, three large preparation-storage rooms adjacent to the laboratories, an x-ray analysis and scanning electron microscopy laboratory, a soils laboratory, a seminar-map room, a darkroom, and a microcomputer laboratory with direct access to the University's Alpha computer network and the Internet.

Students actively use the Department's excellent working collections of reference books, maps and aerial photographs, as well as, extensive teaching and research collections of fossils, minerals, and rocks. In addition, modern binocular and petrographic microscopes, multimedia audio visual records of geological phenomena, drafting equipment, and computer facilities for computation and graphical representation of data are routinely used by students for class exersises.

The x-ray laboratory is equipped with a computer-controlled diffraction goniometer, and three powder cameras. For preparing rock and fossil specimens, one lab features special equipment such as trim and slab saws, lapidaries, and mechanical abrasive cleaning devices. Chemical benches and fume hoods, low temperature drying ovens, centrifuges, analytical balances, vibrolap, and other equipment for the studying sediments are also available to students.

Geology students also complete class-related projects and directed research in the Lutz microscopy laboratory, equipped with a Hitachi S2460N variable pressure scanning electron microscope with Kevex EDS chemical analyzer.

In 1974, David H. Wilson of Louisville, Kentucky, gave a large and exceptionally fine collection of fossils. This collection of more than 30,000 specimens became the basis for a Geological Research and Teaching Center in the Department. This museum enables students to do research on a variety of fossils, minerals, and other geological materials as well as to gain valuable curatorial expertise in designing and constructing museum exhibits. The Center, which has continued to grow because of donations from alumni and friends, is both outstanding and unique for a school of Wittenberg's size.