One of the reasons( indeed the main reason) for the Virtual ore atlas
was that it was extremely difficult to put 3-6 colour photos on a
page have them all colour matched, especially as then 10-12 pages are
colour corrected and printed in one go in the finalprinting, plus
the expense (hardback copies of the ore atlas presently sell at
sterling 210 which is an outragous price).The web page can be added
to at anytime. Using the web as the primary source allows each
photomicrograph to be colour corrected separately, indeed, by the end
user if he wants.The CD-Rom version then becomes a moveable but
essentially static version. A hard copy becomes the last medium and
the least sucessful
A petrographical atlas of the major axe-head lithologies is
being prepared at the moment-for axe studies- and we have decided
that the web is to be the primary source, with CDs and perhaps
hardcopies.
Rob Ixer
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Dr R. A. Ixer
School of Earth Sciences Email: [log in to unmask]
University of Birmingham Tel: 0121 414 4179
Edgbaston Fax : 0121 414 3971
Birmingham B15 2TT
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