I've been out of commission the past 36 hours with one of those quick-onset and intense stomach illnesses. I'm feeling better but it is lingering. It hit me on Monday afternoon while I was point-counting some sandstone thin sections. The culprit may very well be something I ate or some wily virus. But another hypothesis is that my body just simply could not handle the prospect of having to point count multiple samples containing feldspars largely replaced by calcite.
The photo above (from here) shows this nicely. I will be taking photos of my samples soon and will post some of them. They look a lot crappier than this. I think this is what made me violently ill...or maybe it is point-counting in general.
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