More Foram Fun
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 2:34 am
While excavating through the archives I ran across this image of a little arrangement of forams that I posted a while back, but hope you won't mind if I repeat it because it got me fired up to retrieve the sample, dig a few more out, and have a little fun trying to make some interesting new pix. Then Cuxlander posted his beautiful foram image yesterday, so here are a few I ended up with to keep the ball rolling.
First, the original bunch I already ran past you:
The idea was to give the viewer a feel for size in a way a little more juicy than a dry scale bar, so I posed one in the eye of a #12 sewing needle:
Then it occurred to me that we seldom, if ever, see forams presented as they are found, among the grains of the sand sample they were discovered in:
And finally, you just gotta put the sand under crossed polarizers, right? Texas beach sand appears to be largely quartz, I'd say:
Just a little fun in the lab...
First, the original bunch I already ran past you:
- 12-14-17 TCD Foram 002_lzn_zb 1024px.jpg (235.95 KiB) Viewed 3522 times
The idea was to give the viewer a feel for size in a way a little more juicy than a dry scale bar, so I posed one in the eye of a #12 sewing needle:
- 3-7-19 6372_lzn_pn 1024px.jpg (362.14 KiB) Viewed 3522 times
Then it occurred to me that we seldom, if ever, see forams presented as they are found, among the grains of the sand sample they were discovered in:
- 3-7-19 DMap 2_lzn 1024px.jpg (156.83 KiB) Viewed 3522 times
And finally, you just gotta put the sand under crossed polarizers, right? Texas beach sand appears to be largely quartz, I'd say:
- 3-3-19 6349_lzn_pn 1024px.jpg (238.95 KiB) Viewed 3522 times
Just a little fun in the lab...
Guess I gotta go back and re-do that one...