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Harbor Particles Under the Microscope

Seaport Particles

This is from an environmental tapelift collected in an office building next to a container ship dock in San Francisco Bay. There are three large cenospheres in this image. They are the two near the top and the one to the left. The black sphere at lower right is a magnetite sphere as is indicated by the dendritic crystal structure on its surface.

Transmitted Off Crossed Polarized Light and Reflected Darkfield Illumination

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