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The Optical Microscopy Laboratory houses 14 Nikon petrographic

microscopes, a multi-viewer Nikon petrographic microscope with stations for

viewing by up to 5 people simultaneously, a petroscope, 8 Prior binocular

stereoscopes, and a digital imaging station that includes a Wild macroscope

and a Nikon trinocular microscope, both interfaced with a Fuji videocamera,

anEpson scanner, a video screen, a color printer, and a computer equipped

with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator software. Images generated by

microscopy can be projected directly via a ceiling-mounted Epson computer

projector.

 




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