Cpx exsolution in opx, fayalite, garnet, some potassic feldspar - under XPL 🔬 for #thinsectionthursday
New microscope arrived and ready! Late for #ThinSectionThursday , but that's ok 🙃. The lovely peridotite is from another time when I almost became an isotope geochemist! 😱 Any guess where is it coming from?
A Karlsbad twin for #thinsectionthursday in cross-polarized light!
#geolgy #microscooy #throughdescope
A bit late for #thinsectionthursday but Kristina Dunkel showed me today the ZEISS Microscopy Axioscan 7. The Mother of Lofoten PST mylonites has never looked so good under optical light microscopy! Now if only Zeiss Lite was able to open on Mac 👀 Rich Taylor 😂
Zero magnification, natural sunlight, 250 μm for #thinsectionthursday 🔬
garnet amphibolite (brownish green) survived prograde breakdown into mainly clinopyroxene and garnet, leucosome on the right, SW Greenland, very old rock
#geology #meltedrocks #garnet #microscopy
Something different for today's #thinsectionthursday
An epidote-rich marble. High birefringent epidote is partially replaced by blue zoisite, matrix of calcite, quartz and fluorite, and a little bit of hornblende... #metamorphism
Very unique textures in our #ThinSectionThursday
Tabular sodalites phenocrysts, Haruchas Complex, Namibia.
How do you think it can be formed?
#science #art #colors #rocks #geology #petrography #petrology #nature #minerals #microscope #photo graphy #SciArt #photo
Beautiful growth laminae in a 2-Ma old flowstone from the Cradle of Humankind in SA 😍
(10x mag, scale in mm) #ThinSectionThursday
Stringers of euhedral #garnets in pelitic layers in a psammite from #IncredibleIndia . Always a pleasure to look at...
#ThinSectionThursday #geology #petrography
Thin section of the Jurassic plant Williamsonia scotica from the Hugh Miller Collection. Figured by A. C. Seward.
#thinsectionthursday
#fossils
#palaeobotany
#Devonian
#HughMiller
#Historyofgeology
It’s #ThinSectionThursday and for this occasion I was photoshooting some beautiful #covellite samples some weeks ago. This image is actually not a single photo but a microscopic panorama composed of ca. 25 photos. 📸🪨
#geology #geosciences #petrology #oremicroscopy #mineralogy
Thought this epidote was worthy for my first post in a while. Happy #ThinSectionThursday
Epidote(s) porphyroclast in a mylonitic orthogneiss. FOV = 2.3 mm.
Crack-seal #serpentine vein from Cyprus.
(Cross-polarized light where one polarizer is rotated with respect to the other.)
#ThinsectionThursday
#Microscopy
Bornite (Bn), pyrite (Py), Chalcopyrite (Ccp) and magnetite (Mag). This sample is from an unknown location, but shows lots of cool textures!
#geoscience #Mineralogy #Petrography #sulphides #earthsciences #thinsectionthursday #chalcopyrite #borntie #magnetite #pyrite #minerals
