Brownfield_6250

Closeup of one of Steve Schoner's thin sections, showing the rich variety of chondrules in this one small portion of the meteorite from Brownfield, Texas.

 

Photo made using a petrographic microscope and Pentax istDS DSLR. The microscope has cross polarizers in place.

 

I'll have to do a better scale measurement later, but I think the smallest features here are about 1/20th mm.

 

Full view of thin section at about 1:1 macro scale is here:

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Uploaded on December 5, 2008
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