What a beautiful example of the worlds beyond the grasp of the naked human eye. Discovery has a wonderful little gallery.
Prismatic mineral fragments, microscopic coral pieces, tiny organisms, shells…what appears at a distance to be a mass of miniature brown rocks hosts a surprising array of shapes, colors and patters.
Under a microscope, these grains of sand reveal much about the biological and geological history of the local environment. Volcanic eruptions, eroded mountains, even remnants of decaying man-made structures.
See the rest of the gallery.
SheWalksSoftly 
2 responses to ““To See the World in a Grain of Sand…””
Ooooh, when I used to read Muse magazine they had an article with the same pictures of this stuff.
Regim Hotelier Cluj
I’ve been surfing on-line more than three hours these days,
but I never found any fascinating article like yours.
It’s beautiful value enough for me. In my view, if all
web owners and bloggers made good content as you did,
the web will likely be much more helpful than ever before.