2 April 2016
Five new GIGAmacro images
Posted by Callan Bentley
Here are a few new images I’ve been working on with my home-based Magnify2 imaging system from GIGAmacro.
Strophomenid brachiopods from Mississippian Mauch Chunk Formation, West Virginia:
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Boninite from New Caledonia:
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Lepidodendron scale-tree bark from Poland:
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Potassium feldspar crystal, from a pegmatite:
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Catoctin Formation greenstone from a feeder dike east of Linden, Virginia:
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Enjoy exploring them for details.
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.