Illustrates, in full color, the appearance of common rock-forming minerals as seen in thin section under the polarizing microscope. Designed as a laboratory manual for use with a standard mineralogy text. Contains over 200 photomicrographs, short chemical descriptions, and summaries of the optical properties of the various minerals. Photographs carefully chosen to depict features by which minerals may be recognized most easily.
- ISBN10 0470269219
- ISBN13 9780470269213
- Publish Date 23 July 1980
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 20 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 98
- Language English