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What is a thin section? What do all the colors mean?
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Thin section between crossed polarizers. Lodranite
TKW 853 grams. Purchased December 2013, Ouarzazate, Morocco.
Don't miss the zoomable hi-res picture on Flicker.
View the specimen that was used to make this thin section.
Solar writes:
This one took 138 individual images with a Tucsen CH-30 3 megapixel sCMOS camera.
NWA 8251 Meteorite fragments contain brilliant green clinopyroxene crystals, which have earned it the nickname “Green-Eyed” Lodranite. This lodranite breccia creates a uniquely beautiful cross polarized thin section. The wide size, texture, color, and features of the individual grains which compose the breccia make this one of my absolute favorite thin sections to explore.
Check out more at my web site.
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Solar Anamnesis
3/15/2017 4:57:44 PM |
I am glad you like! My favorite part is the bottom right corner of the slice. |
MexicoDoug
3/15/2017 3:25:56 PM |
Darkness was over the surface, and then there was light; the light was good, then, a miracle happened, and thin sections were placed between cross polarizers! |
Anne Black
3/15/2017 1:35:32 PM |
Spectacular! There is a whole new world in those thin-sections. |
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