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Anyone can cut rocks!
Anyone can cut rocks!
The Geology Department rock room (managed by Claire Pless) is a resource available to all Mount Holyoke students, staff, and faculty interested in cutting and polishing rocks! It is located in Clapp basement in rooms 9c and 9d. Please feel free to drop in to get trained on the equipment!
Geologic Thin Sectioning
Geologic Thin Sectioning
The Geology Department rock room houses all the equipment necessary to create geologic thin sections, used for examining rocks at the microscopic scale.
Making Thin Sections Montage.mp4
10X magnification in crossed polarized light of (above) olivine and (below) muscovite
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