Sand Sheet Geology Archives - El Mesteño Ranch and Arboretum https://elmestenoranch.com/category/sand-sheet-geology/ Hidalgo County, Texas Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:01:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://elmestenoranch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-20180808_093253-1-32x32.jpg Sand Sheet Geology Archives - El Mesteño Ranch and Arboretum https://elmestenoranch.com/category/sand-sheet-geology/ 32 32 194751585 Under the microscope… https://elmestenoranch.com/2019/01/_/278/ Tue, 01 Jan 2019 04:26:10 +0000 http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/acmephoto/?p=66 I received a very interesting gift for Christmas:  A microscope with which I can examine, in detail, things that I find at El Mesteño.  Since rocks are “one of my things,” naturally, I would want to inspect them more closely.  This image is of a white rock, approximately the size of a quarter in diameter.  It appears to weigh less than what you would expect when you pick it up.  There are small “holes” in it; it has the appearance of being porous.   This image is one that I captured

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]]> I received a very interesting gift for Christmas:  A microscope with which I can examine, in detail, things that I find at El Mesteño.  Since rocks are “one of my things,” naturally, I would want to inspect them more closely.  This image is of a white rock, approximately the size of a quarter in diameter.  It appears to weigh less than what you would expect when you pick it up.  There are small “holes” in it; it has the appearance of being porous.  

This image is one that I captured with my new microscope.  “It is fascinating, Jim.”

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