Fig. 1: Microscopic photo of an aggregate


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A microscopic photo under cross polarized light. Sand grains are visible in gray and black, clay minerals are visible as streaks of gold and orange. The clay minerals are preferentially oriented along the edges of the sand grains (at the arrows). Size of sample along longest axis is about 20 micrometer.

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