The beauty of shells
Belemnites are the backbone for the reconstruction of Jurassic-Cretaceous seawater properties like temperature. Here you see an image of a thin section of such an belemnite (Gonioteuthis, Upper Cretaceous, NW-Germany) under crossed polarizers. Clearly one can recognize the calcite fibre-bundles the belemnite is made of.
Taken on 9
February
2018
Submitted on 09 February 2018
Finalist in the EGU Photo Competition 2018
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Credit: Rene Hoffmann (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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