Another view of a lovely fossilized colony of bryozoa from unknown locality.
Width c. 3 mm. polarized light.

#science #art #colors #patterns #minerals #crystals #fossils #photography #microscope #geology #paleontology

#thinsectionthursday

One year after: Meteorite, Aperol and Agate
Big Lightboxes at my solo exhibit 'Interferenze'.

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Charoite in Blue
originally taken on color transparency film in 1993.
This is my only attempt at modifying the aspect ratio of my photos.
I like it...

#science #Art #geology #rocks #minerals #gemstones #crystals #schist #charoite #wallart #photography #sciart #scicomm

Minimalism of an Agate from Malawi
(Tribute to Franco Fontana)

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#Mineralmonday
Unhappy OMPHACITE being eaten by ?? in a retrogressed/graded eclogite.

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Sailing staurolite, again in the schist from New Mexico.

Spot the technical flaw in this one (actually at least three, easier to find)

#science #art #STEM #sciart #scicomm #rocks #volcano #lava #minerals #colors #nature #New_Mexico

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#thinsectionthursday
In New Mexico Staurolite is more inclusive than Garnet...
1,7 Ga-old schist from the Picuris mountains.

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Playing
with polarizers,
with the new Sigma FP-L (makes huge files)
and with a lovely retrogressed eclogite.

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Something different
Just about 2500 years old...
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Ferrara

Spot the technical flaw in this image (but it is not the color, obtained on purpose)
Plagioclase phenocryst in an andesite from a forgotten greek island.

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#mineralmonday
Talking about the basal section of AMPHIBOLE and of its characteristic cleavage...

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To add another dimension, here is a high resolution compositional map (FeO) of a similar blueschist from the same locality in #Syros

Many of you will like this PPL+XPL combo of a lovely epidote blueschist from #Syros .
Blue outside and inside...

Pierre Lanari #science #geology #rocks #minerals #metamorphism #microscope

April 2024 – #NanoArtography #Image_of_the_month
#MXene Jeobeon Fan
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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Agate (Brazil)
width c. 2 mm.
Enjoy!

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How do you like this rotating silicified Dinosaur Bone?

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Will we see this meteorite next August, visiting Dublin for the European Mineralogical Congress?

The contest to provide the new cover image for Plinius 50/2024 is open!

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