photomicrograph

Imaggeo On Monday: the EGU Photo Competition – not just landscapes!

Hazel Gibson March 18, 2024

The beauty of shells. Credit: Renee Hoffmann (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members. These images can be of anything to do with geology or geoscience – we get many beautif ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: the EGU Photo Competition – colourful thin-sections.

Hazel Gibson March 28, 2022

micROCKScopica - Symplectite in Granulite. Credit: Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members. These images can be of anything to do with geology or geoscience – we get many beautif ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: The Heart of a Stone

Bernardo Cesare February 14, 2022

The Heart of a Stone. Credit: Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Heart-shaped glomerocryst (aggregate of phenocrysts) made of plagioclase and pyroxene in a cordierite-bearing dacitic lava from Lipari (Eolie Islands). I study the crustal xenoliths of these lavas to understand the processes accompanying high-temperature metamorphism and crustal melting. But I came across this spectacular glomerocryst and couldn’t help but take a picture! Polarized light pho ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Geometric Microscape of Agate

Bernardo Cesare January 3, 2022

Geometric Microscape of Agate . Credit: Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

“Crazy Lace” is an agate collected in Mexico, which offers great opportunities for aesthetic photomicrography. Here we see the common arrangement of fibers of chalcedony (microcrystalline quartz) in parallel bands alternating with black thin layers of Fe oxides. Polarized light photomicrograph, crossed polarizers and red tint plate. width 5.4 mm. Sample kindly provided by Denise M. Har ...[Read More]