Gallery

Cross-polarized light photomicrograph of the Miller Range 090030 nakhlite, a type of martian meteorite. Featured in UNLV's Inquiry 4: The Art of Scientific Discovery exhibit. 

Cross-polarized light photomicrograph of the Northwest Africa 12241 poikilitic shergottite, a type of martian meteorite.

Cross-polarized light photomicrograph of the Northwest Africa 2737 chassignite, a type of martian meteorite.

Cross-polarized light photomicrograph of a sharp contact between the Basistoppen Sheet gabbro and basalt from the Skaergaard Layered Mafic Intrusion, Greenland. Featured in UNLV's Inquiry 3: The Art of Scientific Discovery exhibit.  

Cross-polarized photomicrograph of a dunite from Balsam Gap, North Carolina, USA. 

Cross-polarized light photomicrograph of large clinopyroxene crystal crosscut by fractures from the Ivrea-Verbano zone, Italy.