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Somewhat different Snail

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I thought this was a rather funny discovery I made in one of my thin sections. This is a snail or to be more precise this WAS a snail. The snail shell was in the white section (which is the resin and not the rock). What yousee in the middle is the spindle, which was hollow as the animal lived, but was later filled with calcite while the original shell was disolved.

That snail was about 5mm long. Picture was taken with a regular digital camera through the polarisation microskope and non-polarized light.

The rock it is from is a limestone from the Uppermost Cretaceous found near Maastricht. I was the one who made that thin section and described it in my diploma thesis. Therefore you may use this picture only with my permission.

Further thins sections can be viewed here:
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Image size
2556x2116px 4.47 MB
Make
Samsung
Model
<KENOX S860 / Samsung S860>
Shutter Speed
1/333 second
Aperture
F/8.4
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
Apr 11, 2008, 4:28:05 PM
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