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Looking at rocks up close… and not so close
Posted by Kim Hannula on July 6, 2009
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One of the tricky things to convey about rocks, especially in a lecture or in a textbook, is the way geologists can see such different things at different scales – from thousands of kilometers to a few micrometers – and the way that all those observations fit together to understanding the processes that shape the…
Pretty rock pictures at Photo Synthesis
Posted by Kim Hannula on July 1, 2009 If you haven’t been reading Photo Synthesis, which features a series of science photographers… well, you’ve been missing out. The latest photographer, BJ Bolender, has a series of gorgeous mineral photos from rock and mineral shows in Arizona. Go look! (I’ve been out of town at a family wedding. I’m back now, but I’ve got…