Quartz close-up
Here's two pictures of quartz I took with my new toy, a Nikon camera/microscope/digital-picture-stitcher-togetherer. More to come, clearly. Click on each image to make it bigger.
Conchoidal fractures at the tip of a quartz crystal:
Blue quartz, a distinctive mineral that's found in Virginia's Blue Ridge province:
Purty, huh? No sense of scale, though. Tough!
Conchoidal fractures at the tip of a quartz crystal:
Blue quartz, a distinctive mineral that's found in Virginia's Blue Ridge province:
Purty, huh? No sense of scale, though. Tough!
Labels: blue ridge, minerals, weathering
4 Comments:
Purty, indeed!
Tell us more about this new toy--is it some sort of newfangled camera-microscope-software all rolled into one? Or is it a mix-n-match setup you're using?
Cheers,
--Howard (Calgary, AB, Canada)
Hi Howard,
I'll give you the full low-down on the new device (an integrated set-up, indeed all rolled into one) as soon as I master its various abilities (and thus can show off the really cool stuff it can do).
For the meantime, I'm going to keep you in suspense!
C
Exciting tool. Can you use this with a petrographic microscope? If not, what are the most convenient ways to photograph thin sections or parts of thin sections?
Barbara (Annandale VA)
Barbara,
No, it's not a petrographic scope that passes light through thin sections. This puppy looks at 3-dimensional samples in a "dissecting scope" type of set-up. They do make similar camera set-ups for petrographic scopes, but I don't have one in my lab.
CB
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