| Description |
1 online resource (243 pages) |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Second edition -- Introduction -- Part 1 Optical mineralogy -- The polarizing microscope -- Description of minerals -- Shape and habit of crystals -- Colour and pleochroism -- Cleavage |
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Relief Birefringence -- Extinction angles -- Twinning and zoning -- Undulose extinction and sub-grain structure -- Alteration -- Grain size -- Part 2 Minerals -- Olivine -- Orthopyroxene -- Clinopyroxene -- Two-pyroxene intergrowth -- Amphibole -- Biotite |
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Muscovite Chlorite -- Quartz -- Feldspars -- Sanidine -- Microcline -- Plagioclase -- Nepheline -- Calcite -- Garnet -- Opaque minerals -- Part 3 Igneous rocks -- Peridotite -- Basalt -- Olivine basalt -- Basalt -- Dolerite -- Olivine gabbro |
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Gabbro Andesite -- Diorite -- Granodiorite -- Rhyolite -- Microgranite -- Granite -- Alkali granite -- Phonolite -- Nepheline syenite -- Lamprophyre -- Ignimbrite -- Part 4 Sedimentary rocks -- Terrigenous clastic rocks -- Carbonate rocks |
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Quartz arenite Feldspars in sedimentary rocks -- Sub-arkose -- Arkose -- Sub-litharenite -- Litharenite -- Wacke/Greywacke -- Micaceous sandstone -- Calcareous sandstone -- Glauconitic sandstone -- Mudstone -- Ooid grainstone -- Ooid packstone |
| Summary |
Annotation The second edition of this concise, clear, and handy-sized volume, highly respected and successful authors explain to the reader, with the help of 180 colour photomicrographs, how to observe, describe, and identify thin section samples of rocks and minerals using the polarising microscope |
| Notes |
""Bioclast packstone "" |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Rocks -- Pictorial works
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Minerals -- Pictorial works
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Thin sections (Geology) -- Pictorial works
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Minerals
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Rocks
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Thin sections (Geology)
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adams, A. E
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Brodie, K. H
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| ISBN |
9781351652964 |
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1351652966 |
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9781351650533 |
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135165053X |
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