A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section |
 | Authors: W. S. MacKenzie, A. E. Adams
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $80.00
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Rating:  6 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 0470233389
Dewey Decimal Number: 552.06
EAN: 9780470233382
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Product Description
An introduction to the use of thin sections in the study of petrography—the scientific description of rocks. It covers all rock types—igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic—and provides readers with an excellent overview of the subject.
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 An Excellent book October 3, 2005
N. Watt (North Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is written in a consise and well laid out manner. As the previous writer stated, the colour photos are priceless and are exactly as you would see looking through a petrological microscope both in crossed polars and thin section
 Covers polarised and cross-polars nicely May 20, 2004
I believe this book is ideal for a second year University student to learn to identify rocks and common forming minerals under the microscope.
Regardless of earlier critics, this book is only intended as a help to identify common minerals and nothing else. I personally found it very useful, the colour images are worth more than a thousand printed words.
good little text book October 10, 2008
Meaghan C. Ribarich (western australia)
i'm a second year geology student and this book was an excellent companion during mineralogy and petrology labs
good book but shipping took forever October 4, 2005
jc (New York)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
good deal on my book purchase but it seriously took 3+ weeks for my book to arrive.
 MacKenzie produced a better text with C. Guilford May 3, 2002
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is overpriced and almost useless. It only serves as eye candy for someone with exposure to the petrographic microscope. Outside of pictures it contains terse explanations and alot of blank wasted space.
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