Rock-forming Minerals in Thin Section

Rock-forming Minerals in Thin Section by Hans Pichler, Cornelia Schmitt-Riegraf.

Identificationof rock-forming minerals in thin section is a key skill needed by all earth science students and practising geologists. This translation of the completely revised and updated German second edition (by Leonore Hoke, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand) provides a c...

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Main Authors: Pichler, Hans (Author), Schmitt-Riegraf, Cornelia (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:2nd ed. 1997.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Physical chemistry.
Mineral resources.
Mineralogy.
Economic geology.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Optical Crystallography
  • 1 The polarizing microscope
  • 2 Orthoscopic observations
  • 3 Observations under conoscopic light
  • B Optical Mineralogy
  • 1 Opaque minerals and substances
  • 2 Optically isotropic (also pseudocubic) minerals and amorphous substances
  • 3 Optically uniaxial minerals
  • 4 Biaxial crystals
  • C Appendices
  • 1 Tables for the microscopic identification of rock-forming minerals
  • 2 Diagrams for the classification of magmatic rocks
  • 3 Diagrams of mineral and rock structures.

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