Brad Vance is a practicing geologist with undergraduate degrees in English and geology, and advanced degrees in structural geology. His research utilizes advanced techniques in petrographic analysis of rocks and minerals. By directing plain light through a series of carefully selected polarizing filters, and quartz and gypsum lenses, he is able to tightly constrain the wavelengths that pass through sections of rock (approximately one-millionth of a meter thin) that he collected from locations throughout the world. Without the interference of plain light, the brilliant character of the...more
