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| Author(s): | D. Wiersma |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISBN: | 3540210539 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 160pp | |
| Price: | £25.00, $49.95, €39.95 |
| Review Date: | 25 November 2004 |
| Review: | This book brings together the author’s fascinations for geology and photography. The photographs range over a scale from whole landscapes down to the microscopic. In the field the rocks can be seen in their natural settings – in mountains, outcrops, riverbeds, on the coast and in quarries. At a macro-scale the images are more illusive: illusions and mirages materialize on the polished surface of an agate or inside tiny cavities and cracks in rocks. On the microscopic scale there is yet another universe with finer details and abstractions. Most of these microscopic pictures are made of wafer-thin sections of rocks observed in transmitted light. Polarization brings out spectral colours that result from birefringence of crystal sections. There is a short explanatory text to accompany the plates. |