People who have contributed....
First, I would like to thank Christian
Pauli, Mirjam van Daalen, Michael Stipp and Nils Oesterling,
four Ph.D. students who have worked with me - two are still
with me, I hope. They have not only risked their mental
health by venturing in the world of orientation imaging by a
method called computer-integrated polarization microscopy
(or CIP); they have actually written parts of the program or
contributed subroutines, they have used and expanded the
method and applied it to quartz and calcite during their
Ph.D. research. By doing so they have continuously
challenged the program, the method and the entire approach.
At the same time they have pushed the limit of what can be
done and made me push it with them. They have taught me
immensely.
Of equal importance was the positive
feed-back I got during a stay at Brown University in 1998 in
the context of a research project that Jan Tullis, Greg
Hirth, Holger Stunitz and myself had designed to compare and
correlate natural and experimental microstructures of
quartz, feldspar and olivine. Bringing my microscope and
computer with me I had five months to look at the quartz
deformation experiments that Jan and Greg had performed.
This was some sort of heaven for me: to be able to look at
this incredible wealth of material stacked away in those
little thin section boxes. The samples may be small - but
they provide one hundred percent outcrop!
A year later I returned to the scene
of the crime, this time, without microscope and without
computer. I need to thank Peter Gromet for admitting me to
his lab and letting me use his brand new G3. I am still not
sure he knew what he consented to when he said I could use
it. The major part of this contribution was written on that
computer. I also need to thank
Fritz Roesel of the Basel University Computer Center and
Ingeno Data Basel who somehow conspired towards putting a
fast Mac on my Basler desk...
But most of all I am indebted to the
person in whose honour we produce this CD. Win, I have tried
to copy you and make this paper simple, convincing, easy to
read, useful, exciting, imaginative, just like you taught
us. In as much as achieved this, I owe it to you, in as much
as I failed, I blame it on myself... and the billenium
bug.
October, 10th, 1999, Renée
Heilbronner, Department of Earth Sciences, Basel
University
Funding by:
Acknowledgements
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