Petrografyyk

Petros = stone / Petra = rock + graphikos = writing, drawing

Take a look at what a geoscientist sees under the microscope, and what we can learn from the (oftentimes) beautiful things we see!

Friday: picking small fragments of the mineral garnet for XRCT analyses (aka ‘getting a 3-D X-ray / CAT scan of tiny pieces of rocks). To do this, I use precision tweezers to carefully pick and separate out sand-grain sized pieces of a the pink

Selection of very pink garnet fragments (scalebar | 1 mm)
#garnets #prettyrocks #stereoscopicmicroscope #microscopy #minerals #crystals #pink #picking #fragments #geology #metamorphic

Rutile needles thinner than one of your hairs inside of garnet fragments (cross- and plane-polarized light)

#garnet #rutile #inclusions #petrography #geology #metamorphism #crystallography #minerals #prettyrocks #scienceandart #crosspolarizedlight #

Scientific Displays

geo-architectural intersections