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- Title
- Virtual Petrographic Microscope : a multi-platform education and research software tool to analyse rock thin-sections
- Related
- Australian journal of earth sciences, Vol. 61, No. 4, (2014), p.631-637
- DOI
- 10.1080/08120099.2014.886624
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Date
- 2014
- Author/Creator
- Tetley, M. G
- Author/Creator
- Daczko, N. R
- Description
- We present a free, standalone Windows and Mac OSX desktop software tool designed to aid geoscience researchers, students and educators in rock thin-section analysis without the need for a petrographic microscope. Virtual Petrographic Microscope (VPM) allows a user to analyse prepared high-resolution images of rock thin-sections on a computer using traditional features familiar to users of microscopes including stage rotation, objective zoom and switching between plane-polarised light and crossed-polarised light. VPM includes a range of 'virtual' features not possible when analysing physical thin-sections, including auto-scaling grid overlays, and annotation of thin-section images with the ability to save, export and import annotation files for collaboration and education. A case study involved a trial of the software by an intermediate undergraduate geology class. Analysis of the final examination results shows that incorporation of the VPM tool into the class program improved skill at recognising common rock-forming minerals.
- Description
- 7 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- geoscience education
- Subject Keyword
- microscope
- Subject Keyword
- petrography
- Subject Keyword
- rock properties
- Subject Keyword
- software
- Subject Keyword
- thin-section analysis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/306211
- Identifier
- mq:33337
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-0952
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2013005462
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-84904358696
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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