It's a thin section of sample material (In this case meteorite) attached to a glass slide. I could see them called either just as well.
I guess I got stuck in the middle 5 steps on the list. Love the rocks, hate all that Website crap. Check out my micrographs of thin sections of meteorite glued to glass microscope slides at Paul's Website. http://www.meteorite.com/meteorite-gallery/ Thanks, Tom Phillips ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
