These are a few illustrations I have made for use in some of my courses, papers, short courses, field trips, and other things. Also see rock thin section photos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and field trip photos. High-resolution images available.
Production of oxygen isotope records in ice and ocean sediments.
Differences between water molecules having different oxygen isotopes.
Illustration of measurement of the sign of elongation of a mineral grain using a polarizing microscope.
Inorganic carbon and calcite solubility in the oceans with depth, relation to the carbonate compensation depth.
Centrifugal effects associated with lunar tides.
Example of a simple fish populations model, showing growth of the initial stock and the effects of different annual fish catches.
Incorporation of different things into glacial ice layers that can be used as proxies for climate and other variables.
Light penetration with depth and light color at depth.
Osmotic effects on organisms with bodily fluids having different effective salinities compared to their environment.
Schematic of a reverse osmosis system.
Climate zone and the source of ocean bottom waters.
Sea ice enhancement of bottom water production.
Island arc evolution schematic.
Simple 2-component igneous phase diagram.
Schematic of different situations that can cause deep crustal melting.
Schematic of continuous and discontinuous reactions in a ternary system.
Island arc-trench schematic, Middle Ordovician New York State and the Taconian island arc.
Field trip metamorphic map, northwestern Massachusetts and east-central New York.
Field trip bedrock map, northwestern Massachusetts and east-central New York.
Schematic showing foliation development by pure and simple shear.
Schematic of the tectonic environments in which igneous rocks form, oceanic environments.
Schematic of the tectonic environments in which igneous rocks form, continental environments.
Ordering of aluminum and silicon in K-feldspars and changes in site occupancies and symmetry.
Examples of mineral rimming relationships in igneous rocks.
Metamorphic fluids and the precipitation of graphite during fluid mixing.
Illustration of different types of optic axis dispersion in biaxial minerals.
Biaxial optic axis figures at different 2V values.
Illustration of the development of dispersion of the refractive indices with development of colored Becke lines.
Field trip stop map of downtown Schenectady.
T-X schematic metamorphic phase diagram for mafic volcanics at ~6 kbar.
X-ray tube schematic and X-ray filter illustrations.
Graph showing the relative backscattered electron intensity (proportional to brightness, scanning electron microscope) for a variety of materials.
Design schematic for a scanning electron microscope holder for 1" round samples.
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