The Online Virtual Microscope

The pages that follow contain clickable images. You can click in the "hotspots" highlighted here to call up a new image.

The rock sample in this online example can be rotated from 0 degrees to 50 degrees only, in 10-degree steps.

For smoothest viewing of the pages, download all the pages/images into your browser's cache, and then view the pages off-line. There are approximately 1.2Mb of files in total.