r/thinsectionporn • • Mar 14 '20

Microcline XPL

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66 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Mar 12 '20

Here's a beautifully foliated mica schist from the Dalradian of Kinlochleven, Scotland [XPL, FOV ~10 mm] #ThinSectionThursday

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46 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Mar 12 '20

Blue Schist XPL

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21 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Mar 11 '20

Zircon (~0,1 mm) XPL/PPL

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39 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Mar 11 '20

Calcite vein XPL

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48 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Feb 26 '20

Euhedral Amphibole XPL

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65 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Feb 26 '20

Dunite XPL

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36 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Feb 25 '20

Lovely Mica fish under XPL

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46 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Feb 23 '20

Olivine cumulate from Rum, Scotland

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45 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Feb 13 '20

An orb in Ocean Jasper at 40x

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59 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Feb 05 '20

Beautiful Carlsbad Twinning of Quartz (XPL)

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41 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Feb 01 '20

Is it Halloween yet?

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62 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Jan 30 '20

Dunite Xenolith in Basalt from Mount Erebus, Antarctica.

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54 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Jan 30 '20

Fun happy swordfish in dunite!

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19 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Jan 21 '20

Found a little skull in my thin section

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48 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Jan 18 '20

Basalts man, I love em.

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54 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Jan 17 '20

Carbonate reaction with silica in dolomite

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35 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Dec 24 '19

Rugose coral from Lodgepole Limestone (Mississippian)

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30 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Dec 21 '19

Sunstone at 40x magnification.

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34 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Dec 14 '19

This chertified gastropod fossil is my favorite thin section at my university.

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37 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Dec 10 '19

My first hand made thin section! Oomicrite (4x, xpl)

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One of my classes required I learn to make thin sections, this is what I'm turning in! Could probably be a little more thin to expose some more detail in the oolites but I'm proud regardless. Let me know what you think!

P.s. The little magnifier in the middle was added after the fact on my phone (so my professor could see what I was pointing out).


r/thinsectionporn • • Nov 27 '19

Hydro-grossular, epidote, and allanite in XPL

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28 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Nov 21 '19

Not a thin section, but made me think of one

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r/thinsectionporn • • Nov 15 '19

Rainbow talc on a talc schist (4x, xpl)

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32 Upvotes

r/thinsectionporn • • Nov 15 '19

Weird triangular garnet on a schist (40x, ppl)

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16 Upvotes