The information posted here is not in a particular order. If you want to find something specific on this page, I suggest using page text finder on your computer (Ctrl + F). Important terms and information are in bold. For additional photographs and information, please visit the following pages:
– Mineralogy Media Library
– Photomicrographs of Minerals
– Petrology Media Library (Igneous and Metamorphic)

Sedimentery Petrology

Cements on substrates

Acicular

Pour-filling Cements

Syntaxial Overgrowth

Fusulinid

The image shows morphological structures (as opposed to micro-structures). Scale: ~900 μm across.

Green Algae

Dasycladacean Green Algae

Scale: ~1000 μm across the middle Dasycladacean.

Ooids

Few different cortices can be observed in the image.

Pitted Peloids

Can be classify as a lump of pitted peloids as opposed to grapestones. Scale: ~1200 μm across.

Pisolite

Prismatic Microstructures

Homogeneous Prismatic

Homogeneous Prismatic microstructure identifier; weeping extinction across the shell fragment. Scale: ~1300 μm across.

Scleractinian coral

Sponge Spicules

Stromatolites