| Digital Pictures of Microfossils

Welcome All to My Microfossils World.

Almost everyone has seen a fossil/fossils in their time. As for me, it all

started over 50 years ago,when I was picking up rocks/stones to throw at my

buddies. One time, I picked up one and I saw something on that rock. It was a

small sea shell imbed on the top side of it. At that time, I did not know as to

how was that possible. Now I do, it was a fossil. The word fossil (derived Latin

word Fossilis, meaning" to be dug up") refers to anything that has been buried.

Fossils are preserved remains of organisms that lived on Earth long time ago.

Now, my research is only on hard mudstones or "marls" as they known by that name

here in North American geology, but in the European area the term "seekreide" is

used. Mudstones/marls are calcium carbonate or lime-rich mud or mudstones which

contain variable amounts of clays and calcite or aragonite.

Mudstones are in a light tan to a brownish in color. They may also be more

lighter or darker. They are also very hard to break off a small sample off, by

hand. When you see a mudstone up close, you may not see a fossil on it. I sure did

not see anything at all. I want to see if not by (naked) eye, then maybe I could

see something with a microscope.

The first microscope I bought was a USB hand held microscope with camera build

into it. This one has powers of 10x, 40x and 150x and very easy to use. Just

focus,take your picture and save to your computer. It is also very portable when

you take into the field. Use it with your lap top. (see USB microscope picture)

The next one I bought was a portable measuring microscope (see portable measuring

microscope picture). On this one, no camera comes with it, but it has more power

setups. It comes with eye pieces power of 10x(reticle at 1mm),16x,20xand 25x.

The objectives lens which they come in powers of 2x,5x and 10x, you will get a

view of 100x, when using the 10x eye piece/10x objective lens. At 100x view, the

measuring graduation is 0.01mm. As to how I took pictures, well, I has to build

my own mount set up. This project took me a little while, due to I have never done

this before. What I needed was , something to hold a camera to the microscope.

After trying several tubes out, I found two pieces that would do the job. They

were two different sizes, one to hold a mount to the microscope and the second

one was to hold the camera to the mount of the microscope. (see camera mount

picture). Does it work? Yes, it does for me, as you can see by the pictures I

took. (see my gallery pictures)
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USB Hand Held Microscope

Portable Measuring Microscope