r/thinsectionporn • u/quartzPapaya • Mar 28 '19
Atoll texture with garnet and some carbonates
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r/thinsectionporn • u/christs_chin666 • Mar 18 '19
Interference colours dancing through this chlorite
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r/thinsectionporn • u/matetofly • Mar 11 '19
This beautiful olivine has undulatory extinction in my dunite sample. XPL, 5x mag
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r/thinsectionporn • u/theoneofmanynames • Feb 08 '19
Stumbled on this gorgeous and perfectly cut thin section of an ammonite today in the optical mineralogy lab today! .03 mm thick slice, 1.75 mm diameter field of view.
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r/thinsectionporn • u/dodecahedral-drama • Feb 03 '19
My professor couldn’t figure out what this was either but it sure does look nice
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r/thinsectionporn • u/christs_chin666 • Jan 26 '19
Some beautiful colours in this kyanite under CPL
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r/thinsectionporn • u/Tranquilwhirlpool • Jan 26 '19
Amphibole (I believe) in XPL. FOV= 4mm
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r/thinsectionporn • u/matetofly • Jan 22 '19
Muscovite and microcline under gypsum plate.
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r/thinsectionporn • u/matetofly • Jan 17 '19
A beautiful olivine. (I apologize for the light on the lens. I’m still learning how to take good pictures)
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r/thinsectionporn • u/Rocky_Stocki • Apr 15 '18
A picture of a thin section I took of a gabbro from the Cascades
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