To: longshadow
Damn! Spherulites? Ooids? Pisoliths? What I wouldn't give for a thin-section of these things. Could be volcanic glass, quartz, or calcium carbonate. If CaCO3, then we may be looking at the bottom of an ancient body of water.
42 posted on
02/07/2004 9:07:04 AM PST by
Aracelis
To: Piltdown_Woman
What I wouldn't give for a thin-section of these things. I think I see some spheres that have been split in half because they are round and don't exhibit the "limb darkening" of a full sphere...
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