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RECORD NUMBER: 6 OF 13Main Title | Optical mineralogy / | |||||||||||
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Author | Kerr, Paul F. | |||||||||||
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Book Company, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1959 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 00275706 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Optical mineralogy ; Mineralogie ; Optisches Verfahren | |||||||||||
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Edition | 3d ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | xiv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | "Previous editions by Austin F. Rogers and Paul F. Kerr." Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | MINERAL OPTICS: Mineral preparations for microscopic study -- The polarizing microscope -- A summary of the properties of light -- Refraction -- Plane polarized light in minerals -- Convergent polarized light -- The universal stage -- General features: color, mode of aggregation, cleavage and orientation -- Mineral fragments -- Systematic identification -- MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS: Elements to hydroxides -- Carbonates, sulfates, and phosphates -- Silicates: framework structures (tectosilicates) -- Silicates: chain structures (inosilicates) -- Silicates: single, multiple, and ring SiO, structures (neso-, soro-, and cyclosilicates) -- Silicates: sheet structures and mineraloids. |