- 182 pages
- English
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A Key for Identification of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section
About this book
Structured in the form of a dichotomous key, comparable to those widely used in botany, the mineral key provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying rock-forming minerals in thin-section. This unique approach covers 150 plus of the most commonly encountered rock-forming minerals, plus a few rarer but noteworthy ones. Illustrated in
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Key to rock-forming minerals in thin-section
- Section 1: 2 (or 3) cleavage traces
- Section 2: 1 Cleavage trace, inclined extinction
- Section 3: 1 Cleavage trace, straight extinction, colourless
- Section 4: 1 Cleavage trace, straight extinction, coloured
- Section 5: Imperfect cleavage, parting or arranged fractures
- Section 6: 0 Cleavage traces, colourless
- Section 7: 0 Cleavage traces, coloured
- Section 8: Opaque minerals
- Appendix 1: Birefringence value (δ) and corresponding interference colours for a 30μm rock thin-section
- Appendix 2: Birefringence table of minerals in order of δ values
- Appendix 3: Glossary
- Appendix 4: Mineral abbreviations
- References