Acknowledgements

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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:

  • Swiss National Science Foundation: NF21-36008.92, NF20-42134.94, NF2000-049562.96 and NF2000-055420.98.
  • US National Science Foundation: EAR9725623
  • Swiss National Science foundation: R'Equip 2160-051625.97