Re: Photo quiz: what is this?

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

Once again thanks for putting up the pictures, they deserve a
permanant home, try emailing Mike Horne from links at the website i
refered to in an earlier post.

Cheers

Nigel Whittington- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks a lot again.

all your answers clear up things for me a lot. My dad suggested that
it's probably not a good idea to leave these photos on the internet as
we don't know who owns the copyright of them. But I currently have a
sort of earth history and geography course at school for which I have
to give a presentation. I think about telling something about these
photos, or rather how they are made and what they are good for and a
bit what forams and bryozoans are or along these lines. For me it
sounds more interesting than all the dinosaur presentations I'm
probably going to hear :)

Thanks again,
Dani :)

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