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Rock Thin Sections

Rock Thin Sections. Use of a digital microscope Dr Peter Copley Newcastle College June 2004. Philip Harris (Motic) Microscope Cost: about £1200 (to the Biology dept!) Includes software. The Microscope. Binocular eyepiece (x10). Digital camera. Objective Lenses (x4,x10,x40, X100 oe).

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Rock Thin Sections

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  1. Rock Thin Sections Use of a digital microscope Dr Peter Copley Newcastle College June 2004

  2. Philip Harris (Motic) MicroscopeCost: about £1200(to the Biology dept!)Includes software

  3. The Microscope

  4. Binocular eyepiece (x10) Digital camera Objective Lenses (x4,x10,x40, X100 oe)

  5. Main Power switch Power input Camera power usb

  6. No polarising facilities Adequate for basic textural images. Exam papers only use/expect monochromatic drawings.

  7. Acknowledgement Thin sections Geology department Keele University

  8. Sedimentary Rocks

  9. Desert sandstone (x40)

  10. Keele Sandstone (x40)

  11. Sherwood Sandstone (x40) ‘Bunter Sst’

  12. Oolitic Limestone (x40)

  13. Limestone – calcite crystals in shell (x100)

  14. Arkose (x40)

  15. Igneous Rocks

  16. Peridotite (x40) Olivine Pyroxene

  17. Porphyrytic Olivine Basalt Groundmass

  18. Ophitic Texture (x40) Pyroxene Feldspar

  19. Zoned Olivine crystal (x40)

  20. Spherulitic Pitchstone (x40)

  21. Metamorphic Rocks

  22. Garnet Mica Schist (x100) Mica

  23. Chiastolite Slate (x40)

  24. Gneiss (x40) Felsic minerals Mafic minerals

  25. Sillimanite needles (x400)

  26. Kyanite & Biotite (x100)

  27. Alternatively……

  28. What if you cannot afford £1200?

  29. A cheaper alternative! About £40 But discontinued in 2002 by Intel. But now available…….

  30. £60 from www.thepcstore.co.uk

  31. Don’t expect the image quality to be as good!!!

  32. Oolitic Limestone (x60)

  33. Porphyritic Basalt (x60)

  34. Feldspar Pyroxene Ophitic Texture (x60)

  35. Chiastolite Slate (x60)

  36. Will it do??? That’s up to you!

  37. THE END

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