Minerals in Thin Section
Basic Optical Mineralogy
An
introduction to the polarizing microscope
Michel-Levy
method for identifying plagioclase compositions in thin section
This site is
an excellent site for Basic Petrology - with good notes for Optical Mineralogy
How To
Examine Minerals in Thin Section – from M.L. Bevier
Optical
Mineralogy lecture notes and such from Mickey Gunter's Mineralogy and
Optical Mineralogy course at Univ. of Idaho
Sites with images of rocks and
minerals in thin section!!
Igneous Minerals and Metamorphic
Minerals from
AND a Making
petrographic thin sections – also from
This
site from Humboldt State is a very nice Petrography page with a good list of
minerals in thin section and this site with Textures
and definitions
This
site (from Greg Finn at Brock University) explains/defines various Optical
Properties with images
Plutonic
Rocks in thin section good site including textures and mineral ID
Volcanic
Rocks in thin section that good UNC site again, including both textures and
mineral ID
This is a good site
(from Steve Dutch at UWisc-Green Bay) with images of
rock-forming minerals at the bottom of the page.
Minerals - Browser is a
very good site from UCLA - that are very difficult to access (due, in part,
from overloaded use)
A good site for thin sections of rocks from the Rustenburg Layered Suite – part of the Bushveld Complex
A Mineral Atlas – originally en francais – but now in English.
Moonstruck?
Go HERE
for photomicrographs and info on Lunar
geology/petrology – from
For reflected light microscopy, there is no better set of sites than the Virtual Atlas of Opaque and Ore
Minerals – and then click on “Minerals” or
“Mineralogy” or “Gallery” to go wherever your fancy takes you!!
A spectacular site on Ores and Opaque Minerals
from SMENET
Here’s a great site called Microscopy and Minerals
Images with ALL sorts of great links, including photos of minerals and
rocks – conoscopic pics,
… and more!
AND – if you’d like to see some images from the SEM
– this is a good site from
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