Re: Photo quiz: what is this?


You know, for whatever it's worth this little thread of answering a stranger's question represents the promise of what the internet was supposed to be before it got dark, ugly and anonymous.

Thanks to all responders for enlightening this reader as well.

Much appreciated.


Jo Schaper wrote:
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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