OESIS
Oxford Earth Sciences Image Store
The Image Store is a collection of digitized photographs of rocks and geological features for use in teaching. It is currently under development as part of a collaboration with the Academic Computing Development Team. At present you can look at provisional editions of the following collections:
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Rocks of NW
Scotland
Sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks from an area of classic geology, seen in panoramic view, outcrop, hand specimen and under the microscope -
Rocks in hand
specimen
A representative set of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks from Oxford's teaching collections -
Rocks in the
Field
A set of photographs of common rock types and geological features as you would see them in the landscape or in outcrop -
Rocks under the
Microscope
A variety of rocks photographed in thin section - very thin slices at high magnification
Photographic images on this site are copyright University of Oxford (except where explicitly stated). They may be used without charge for bona fide educational purposes.