Re: Photo quiz: what is this?

coastwatch wrote:
On 29 May, 10:06, superdanig...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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,
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Hi again Dani.

There would be several reasons to take photos of thin sections.
Firstly they are one heck of a lot easier to look at than the view
down the scope! Even with a good quality, well maintained scope
looking at stuff for more than a short time can bring on eyestrain and
headaches. Seeing a photo at reasonable enlargenment is a pretty good
way to examine your specimen. Secondly if you have a picture, you can
look at it with colleagues and friends, or, if you are a teacher share
it with your students. You might also want the pictures as a permenant
record, it is easier to get a picture from your files to look at, than
to set up your scope to view it. A further reason might be a desire to
publish.

Not sure about the thing in image 3 - may possibly be bryozoan

Cheers

Nigel Whittington

Hi Nigel!

No, a 'byzoan' isn't some Yankee manglement of a paleo term. It's just a type. Bryzoan. Bryzoan. Wasn't there a famous British poet,
George Gordon, Lord Byrzoan? *|:-)
cheers back at you!
Jo

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