Re: Photo quiz: what is this?

On May 25, 11:16 pm, coastwatch <coastwa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 Cfhttp://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/60/foram3.jpg
- more forams Image 2 - another type of Foram Cfhttp://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/60/foram6.jpg
See Mike Horne's microfossil pagehttp://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
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Thanks a lot for all your kind answers. I didn't know you can actually
look through rocks with a microscope, maybe that's why I could not
even imagine what was on the images. But anyway, these foraminifera
are really beautiful, and so different. Can I ask you guys why someone
would take photographs of them? I mean, apart from being beautiful you
can probably do something with them, don't you? And do you know what's
there to see on image 3? There is a dark blob to the left, then
something with many tiny chambers that looks like the skin of a garden
slug (that is not one of these forams?) and then something green.

Thank you all,
Dani :)

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