Hi Everyone! I had another extremely fun week at my internship In Salt Lake City. This week we looked at a bunch of slide samples of different types of sandstone under a microscope and learned all of the characteristics and components found in a typical sandstone. The sandstone is often filled with a colored resin that you can see under a microscope, this allows for us to find the porosity of any given sample. Using PPL (plane polarized light) and XPL (cross polarized light) to identify Quartz, which undergoes extinction when the sample is rotated because of its crystal structure, Feldspar, and Lithic fragments. After a bit of practice I became more familiar with what all of these things look like under the microscope and I was able to identify sandstone based these things.
Outside of the Internship I explored a lot of Salt Lake City and visited the Temple square as well as hiking some of the trails above the university campus and spending plenty of time at the gym. Over the weekend I went back to Telluride for the Bluegrass festival and drove back to Salt Lake City. In Telluride I did lots of hiking during the day and went to Bluegrass during the evening. I am super excited for the trip we are taking next week to the Uinta basin to see the real world application to this work.
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