Biotite in Schist is a photograph by - MicROCKScopica - which was uploaded on July 12th, 2019.
Biotite in Schist
There was a penetration of the light into solid substance so that I seemed to see into things, deep in....... more
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Biotite in Schist
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- MicROCKScopica -
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Photograph - Polarized Light Photomicrograph
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"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 on rocks from the Italian Alps.
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A micaschist, metamorphic rock often found in the Alps, consisting of muscovite mica, graphite and a large biotite porphyroblasts.
More info at www.microckscopica.org
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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.
Rock cut, sliced and thinned down to a regular thin section (30-micron thickness)
Technique: Photomicrograph under polarized light, crossed polars plus red tint plate.
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