Besides for the purposes of documenting my research, I like to take photos of rocks under the microscope also because of their aesthetic appeal. It’s an hidden, marvelous world. These flying-saucer-looking objects are in fact the fossil skeletons of a Nummulites (the larger) and a Discocyclina (the one on top left), both belong to the phylum of Foraminifera. These single-celled organisms occupyied ...[Read More]
Imaggeo on Mondays: Tertiary Flying Saucers
![Imaggeo on Mondays: Tertiary Flying Saucers](https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/files/2020/02/5c7aac9d7193f64988d457ce718b20fb-700x400.jpg)
Polarized light photomicrograph of a thin section of a fossiliferous limestone from Lake Garda, Italy: Tertiary Flying Saucers. Credit: Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)