These images are not color enhanced. They are photographs from Mr. Vance's petrographic microscope, carefully selected not only for their scientific significance, but for their aesthetic qualities as well. From the Catalina Mountains of Arizona to the 2.5 billion-year old Montana Stillwater igneous complex to the kimberlite diamond pipes of South Africa, no confluence of science and beauty could be more starkly exhibited than in the microscopic investigation of the ground upon which we all walk.
These images are not color enhanced. They are photographs from Mr. Vance's petrographic microscope, carefully selected not only for their scientific significance, but for their aesthetic qualities as well. From the Catalina Mountains of Arizona to the 2.5 billion-year old Montana Stillwater igneous complex to the kimberlite diamond pipes of South Africa, no confluence of science and beauty could be more starkly exhibited than in the microscopic investigation of the ground upon which we all walk.