Biotite in Schist Framed Print

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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.

"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 the micROCKscopica galleries. I am a Geologist at the University of Padova, Italy. I work with rocks and make extensive use of micro- and macrophotography to describe the subjects of my studies and their morphological features. As a photographer with artistic intent, my rock photomicrographs have been displayed in photo galleries, at mineralogical and scientific exhibits and in Natural Sciences...

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