Re: Photo quiz: what is this?

On 24 May, 13:43, superdanig...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello,

I think I'm probably in the correct group but if not please don't
shoot me but refer me to the right place, ok? A relative I never heard
of died recently. I think he was a geologist. My parents found some
digital images that must have something to do with his work, These
photos really fascinate me and I would like to know what's on them.
Some of these thingies look like shells or snails, there are many
small rounded bubbles, maybe plant parts, others I don't even have an
idea what they might be.

Please can you tell me what I'm looking at? I uploaded them here:http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x271/thingyphotos/

Thanks a lot,

Dani :)

Hi Dani, thanks for the interesting photos.

I agree with another poster, they look like photomicrographs - Thin
sections of what is probably a limestone, some of the shots such as
Image 8 which shows a good cross section of a Foraminifera ( Foram)
Image 9 Cf http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/60/foram3.jpg
- more forams Image 2 - another type of Foram Cf
http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/60/foram6.jpg
See Mike Horne's microfossil page http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/chsmjh/microhome.html

I am happy to take correction on image 15 - it might be yet another
Foram, but it might be a Bryozoan

Cheers
Nigel Whittington
Hull
East Yorkshire - The Ice age coast
UK

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