Found the USB Microscope I'd used for my prospecting tailings and put it to use looking at a few pieces of what I suspected were dinosaur teeth that I'd picked up Saturday with the daughter.
A zoom in on a serrated piece of tooth - about 15 mm across, and broken as it tapered up and down. The serrations suggest predation by land dinosaurs - think therapods.
The other side of the same tooth - the serrations are more clearly visible, they look like a mini-set of teeth (growing out from a tooth...) - the infinitely recursive fractal geometry of life...
Excuse the bits of wool - all specimens were carefully stored in my sketchy rave hoody. And in the process acquired a bit of extraneous wool.
Clearly defined serrations on a tiny shard of tooth (this piece of tooth was under a centimeter in length and half as wide. But the serrations were clearly visible, and the enamel-vs bone is not too tough to spot.
Zoom in on bits of lichen growing on a piece of dinosaur bone...
as above...
Close up, texture of fossilized bone
As above. Not sure if that bright green is mineral, vegetable or fungi.
Texture of tooth, enamel, but no edges to confirm.
Same as above, but some pretty/interesting patterns of weathering & mineralizations.
Now that I've found the 'scope I can look at all my dinosaur bones under it!!! And THEN won't this blog be exciting!!!!!