Think you’ve seen everything clay has to offer? The Mineralogical Society wowed us recently with some up-close-and-personal images of different kinds of clay and minerals. These microscopic photographs have us seeing our favorite material in a whole new way.
Above image: A microscopic view of Kaolinite. Image by Michal Skiba, Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
The Society was founded in 1876 to advance the scientific field of mineralogy through the publication of journals and the holding of scientific meetings. These photographs are a fun intersection of science and art, making the familiar appear alien.
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Talc, fe-rich. Image by Javier Cuadros and Vesselin Dekov, Natural History Museum, London, UK. Click to see a larger image.
Smectite, trioctahedral. Photograph by Anthony Priestas, Boston, University. Click to see a larger image.
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Dickite. Photograph by Frank Friedrich, Forschungzentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany. Click to see a larger image.
Illite, fibrous. Photograph by M. Roe Macaulay Institute.
Smectite, nontronitic. Photograph by Michael Veibel (Michigan State University) and William Barker (University of Wisconsin Madison). Click to see a larger image.
Palygorskite. Photograph by Toshihiro Kogure. Click to see a larger image.
Phillipsite. Photograph by Hani Khoury, University of Jordan.
Smectite, nontronitic. Photograph by Michael Veibel (Michigan State University) and William Barker (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Smectite, dioctahedral. Photograph by Steve Chipera, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Click to see a larger image.
Kaolinite. Photograph by Evelyne Deibos, The James Hutton Institute. Click to see a larger image.
Sepiolite. Photograph by Toshihiro Kogure. Click to see a larger image.
Great job ! it reminds me a film made by CNRS, shown at Montpellier ceramic film festival, (France), where it was possible to see a porcelain bowl, as a zoom inside the material, from normal view to micron size.
Great job ! it reminds me a film made by CNRS, shown at Montpellier ceramic film festival, (Fra,nce), where it was possible to see a porcelain bowl, as a zoom inside the material, from normal view to micron size.