Video showing the 3D modelling of the rocks (VIDEO)

University College London

Caption

Three-dimensional micro-CT reconstruction of two parallel-aligned twisted filaments made of hematite. (The red and green colours represent hematite at different concentrations.) This comes from a pillar fabricated from the jasper nodule in the Nuvvuagittuq banded iron formation.

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Credit: Francesco Iacoviello

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