a new sample

[kareina]

I started typing up a new sample today, one which I first analysed back in 2005 during the microprobe session in which my advisor introduced me to the "probe" and what one does with it, and then went back to probe that sample again other, more recent occasions. What I hadn't noticed until today, when I created a figure showing the two different garnet grains (which were analysed in different probe sessions) side by side, with the graphs of their composition linked to the spots on the grain, is that they are *very* different, both in their appearance and in their composition.

Alas, I can't share a photo, because although CorelDraw exported it as a .jpg which I can open on my computer, when I tried uploading it, I got an error message and it is much too late to try to solve the problem tonight. So suffice it to say that just describing the sample, and the chemical composition of the two very different garnets within it took 732 words. I've got much more to describe with respect to the other minerals (I hadn't realized until today that I'd never actually done anything with the results for this samples "inclusion" probe session, so I spent much of the day simply working out what each inclusion within the garnet that I'd analysed is.) intrigued