Figure 6-2. Ostracod valve (arrows) amidst aragonite (A) and void space (V) in the side of a stalagmite from Madagascar. Another image in this atlas shows multiple ostracod valves in a stalagmite from Namibia.
   Photomicrograph was taken in plane-polarized light; field of view is 1.8 mm wide. Anjohibe Cave, Madagascar; Sample MA2; thin section MA2-6. Sample collected by Dr. George A. Brook.
   
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