THE PSYCHEDELIC WORLD OR BEACH PEBBLES UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

Nothing dull about beach pebbles when you get to see their inner beauty.  The images could pass as modern art pictures.  

An Italian geologist was inspired to create magnified images of the composition of pebbles when on holiday

Professor Bernardo Cesare, of the University of Padova, Italy, carefully selected pebbles from a beach in Carboneras, which is known for the variety of geologically different rock available

He cut them into thin sections and used an optical microscope to make micrographs of the pebbles

The images can show the order typical of the crystalline nature of minerals as straight lines corresponding to crystal faces.

And they also show the irregularity and chaos that can characterise natural processes, and the swirling lines that are sometimes seen give the feeling of movement, as a result of deformation during smashing of continents.

 

 

Read more and see pictures here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2516984/A-beach-rainbow-rocks-Geologist-puts-pebbles-microscope-reveal-psychedelic-kaleidoscope-colour.html

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