Figure 3.
X-ray diffraction patterns (Mo Kα radiation): (a) of a lapilli otolith consisting of a single vaterite spherulite (~100 μm in diameter) from a juvenile hatchery-reared Lake Sturgeon, University of Manitoba. (b) Ideally random powdered vaterite from a Lake Sturgeon otolith, Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin. The images were recorded for 300 s while rotating the samples 1°/s around the vertical ϕ axis. The detector consists of 2 segments with a horizontal dead space between them. The shadow of the beam stop extends upward to the right. A faint shadow of the sample mounting pin extends down from center.