Andalusite is a photograph by - MicROCKScopica - which was uploaded on February 7th, 2014.
Andalusite
There was a penetration of the light into solid substance so that I seemed to see into things, deep in....
John Steinbeck was not thinking of... more
Title
Andalusite
Artist
- MicROCKScopica -
Medium
Photograph - Polarized Light Photomicrograph
Description
"There was a penetration of the light into solid substance so that I seemed to see into things, deep in...".
John Steinbeck was not thinking of rocks when he wrote this sentence in "Travels with Charley - In search of America". However, his feeling exactly reflects what people should think when looking at rock photomicrographs such as in this reportage.
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Radiating andalusite crystals from a crustal enclave in the lavas of Lipari (Aeolian islands, Italy)
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All images are transmitted, polarized light photomicrographs of 30-micron-thick rock slices (geological "thin sections"), with width of view ranging from 1 to 5 mm. Images were taken with a Canon Eos 550D camera mounted on the trinocular head of a Zeiss Axioscop 40 Pol microscope.
Technique: Photomicrograph under polarized light, crossed polars plus red tint plate.
Uploaded
February 7th, 2014
