Detail of a photo: Glacier with curved grey stripes flowing down a valley from snowy, rocky peaks under a blue sky with white clouds, beside a gravel path and a wooden fenced viewpoint.
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Photo of the Week (Approximately)

Photo of the Week (Approximately)

The truly insane photo above shows “Different generations of calcite cements in Late Miocene seep carbonates (Piedmont, Italy; cathodoluminescence microphotograph)”. It was taken by Marcello Natalicchio, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germania  – Source. This photo was taken using a cathodoluminescence microscope which is both a standalone tool or can be an adaptation to a scanning …[Read More]