micROCKScopica
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Bernardo Cesare
Geologist @geounipd. RockCommunicator. I study rocks and show their Art under the microscope. (He/Who?)
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April 2024 – #NanoArtography #Image_of_the_month
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Congrats to Marley Downes, Mark Anayee, Yong-Jae Kim –Drexel University, USA
Material type: titanium carbide MXene. Image width: 0.036 mm
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How do you like this rotating silicified Dinosaur Bone?
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#Mineralmonday
Optically sector zoned Garnet in a matrix of Glaucophane. Blueschist from Cazadero, CA.
Imaged by polychromatic polarization.
width c. 1 mm
It is #WorldMicroscopeDay2024 !
My contribution deals with POLYCHROMATIC POLARIZATION for geological speciments.
In this case a non-cubic garnet in an eclogite from Sivrihisar, Turkey. Sample courtesy of D. Whitney
More of the lovely staurolite aggregates in the metapelites from the the Vedrette di Ries contact aureole (eastern Alps, Italy).
Crossed polars and lambda plates. Width 1.5 mm.
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