Geosciences Image Gallery

Images created from the analysis of a range of earth materials, presented to the instrument as polished petrographic thin-sections and polished 30 mm blocks.

Aggregate

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Particles of crushed aggregate made from recycled materials.

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Courtesy of Camborne School of Mines
Coal Dust

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Coal dust from a pulverized fuel sample

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Cell Lummins

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Coalified wood (black) with cell lumens infilled with clay minerals (brown and green)

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Courtesy of Camborne School of Mines
Particles of Pulverized Coal

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Particles of pulverized coal

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Coal2 : Fingerprinting of pulversied coal

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Fingerprinting of pulversied coal samples based on presence of ash-forming minerals

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Cement Clinker

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Cement clinker with recycled fly ash added

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Lunar Regolith Simulant

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Lunar Regolith Simulant, NU-LHT-1M. Image not to be reproduced or used elsewhere without permission of FEI.

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Courtesy of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and USGS, Denver
Lunar Regolith Particles

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Particles collected from the Moon during Apollo 17 mission. Image not to be reproduced or used elsewhere without permission of FEI.

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Courtesy of NASA's Johnson Space Center
Meteorite UNSW 6796

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Courtesy of Prof Adrian Brearley, University of New Mexico, USA
Meteorite

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Courtesy of Prof. Adrian Brearley, University of New Mexico, USA

Geosciences Image Gallery

Aggregate

Coal Dust

Cell Lummins

Particles of Pulverized Coal

Coal2 : Fingerprinting of pulversied coal

Cement Clinker

Lunar Regolith Simulant

Lunar Regolith Particles

Meteorite UNSW 6796

Meteorite