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Day 45 of #IStayAtHome and #rocksathome
Calcite and its Twins for #mineralmonday
... because #Earth without #Art is just eh ...
#geology #rocks #microscope #minerals #photography
Day 40 of #IStayAtHome and #rocksathome
Happy 50th #EarthDay everyone!
... because #Earth without #Art is just eh ...
#geology #rocks #microscope #minerals #photography
Day 36 of #IStayHome, no #rocksathome tonight but stretched pieces of #plastic under the #microscope
Enjoy and have a nice #weekend !
#art #science #colors #microscopy #wallart #materials #chemistry #sciart
Day 34 of #IStayHome
#rocksathome for me is basically #thinsectionthursday.
More #twins and #twinning in #minerals.
From top left clockwise: Cordierite; Pyroxene, Plagioclase; Kyanite. Enjoy!
#rocks #geology #microscopy #photography #sciart #science
Day 32 of #IStayHome
#rocksathome tweet 7 on #nanogranites (NG): some perspectives.
NG are a powerful novel tool to investigate in situ anatectic processes. And provide small volumes of primary melt that can be analysed. So far ...
Day 29 of #IStayHome
#rocksathome tweet 6 on #nanogranites (NG).
As NG are crystallized melt inclusions, their provide a novel tool to analyse in situ the composition of natural crustal melts. They are "granite embryos"! But how can the melt composition be determined...
Check out this amazing 3D model of the ultra-high pressure #eclogite from the Western Gneiss Region of Norway made by @chrisfpclark
#workingfromhome #rocksathome #sketchfab
Day 25 of #IStayHomeFor
#rocksathome tweet 3 on #crustal_anatexis
The enclaves of El Hoyazo are peculiar for many things, but most of all for their #melt_inclusions (MI). MI occur in virtually all minerals (here clockwise Spl, Mnz, Bt, Crd, Ap), and in particular in (read on)...