Optical Mineralogy |
 | Author: Paul Francis Kerr
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4th
Pages: 492
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0070342180
Dewey Decimal Number: 549.125
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Customer Reviews:
Information Rich Treasure June 20, 2000
Peter Timusk (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I used an older edition of this book in my crystallography studies. It is fasinating to see the pictures. There is a complete section that was helpful on using the polarising microscope. It also has an identification guide which is useful although a modern database could also do this type of searching. A good book for a geology student.
Invaluable Identification Guide September 20, 2000
David Michael Poulsen
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a user of this book as a student of Geology I can highly recommend it. There is no douth in my mind that this remains the best book made for identification in optical mineralogy. In addition to containing descriptions of optical properties for over 450 minerals, it has a easy to use system of tabels which crossreference and compare the optical properties of the minerals. This system is very well taliored and makes identification, not a dream but a lot easier. The book also has a large section on the theory of optical mineralogy and polarizing microscope.
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