Thin Geological Section Microscope Slides -1913 - Set of Five

Thin Geological Section Microscope Slides -1913 – Set of Five

A group of five thin section slides from the UK, India and Iceland all nice samples, well labelled and in nice condition

Obsidian with spherulites from Iceland
(Spherulites are small rounded bodies that occur in vitreous igneous rocks such as obsidian)

Chert – Blue Limestone – Somerset
(This unusual blue coloured limestone is from a Lias Quarry in Shepton Mallet)

Chloritic Marl – Compton Abbas – Dorset
(Fossil containing bedrock to the chalk of southern England)

Anorthite from Salem South India
(A Gneiss rock structure from the Sittampundi Complex at Salem near Madras)

Augen Gneiss from Strahnaver, Sutherland, Scotland
(A Metamorphic rock which is clotted with flesh coloured feldspar “augen”)

A very good selection

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