A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section is a clear and accessible introduction to the use of thin sections in the study of Petrography—the scientific description of rocks. Illustrated with a wealth of full color thin section photographs the book explains how to observe mineral and rock samples under the microscope. It covers all covers all rock types—igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic—with equal emphasis and authority, providing the student with an excellent overview of the subject. Each photograph, specially produced for the book, has been chosen to instruct the beginner and offer valuable resource material to the teacher and lecturer of geology. As well as being a useful teaching and learning tool, the atlas is a concise reference and review of rock and mineral identification.
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A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section is a clear and accessible introduction to the use of thin sections in the study of Petrography—the scientific description of rocks. Illustrated with a wealth of full color thin section photographs the book explains how to observe mineral and rock samples under the microscope. It covers all covers all rock types—igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic—with equal emphasis and authority, providing the student with an excellent overview of the subject. Each photograph, specially produced for the book, has been chosen to instruct the beginner and offer valuable resource material to the teacher and lecturer of geology. As well as being a useful teaching and learning tool, the atlas is a concise reference and review of rock and mineral identification.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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MacKenzie produced a better text with C. Guilford,
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This review is from: A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section (Paperback)
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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Avoid confusion!,
By Peter A Selkin (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section (Paperback)
I agree with the reviewer from Fairbanks: this book should not be confused with the Mackenzie and Guilford atlas. The Atlas of *Rocks* and Minerals tries to be too comprehensive (by including both rocks and minerals) and in doing so has lost all of the information about less common and accessory minerals that was in the Mackenzie and Guilford text. Of course, much of what's in both books is now available on the Web, but it's still hard to find large format color photos like the ones in Mackenzie and Guilford. Another (less expensive) alternative is A.R. Philpotts' "Petrography of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks." In my experience as a student and then a TA in a mineralogy course, Philpotts' book does a better job of pointing out the distinctive characteristics of minerals than do the photographic atlases.
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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
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The polarizing or petrographic microscope is distinguished from the more usual biological microscope in that it is equipped with a rotating stage and two polarizing filters, one below the stage and the other above it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crossed polars view, alkali dolerite, twinned plagioclase, bright interference colours, absorption colour, extinction angle, extinction position, micaceous sandstone, alkali feldspar, low birefringence, quartz arenite, good cleavage, plagioclase feldspar, euhedral crystals, perfect cleavage, one cleavage, olivine crystals, basaltic composition, feldspar crystals, hand specimen, nepheline syenite, prismatic crystals, mounting medium, light view Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, Middle Jurassic, Northern England, Shiant Isles, Upper Carboniferous, Fort Dauphin, Ile de Groix, Lower Jurassic, Rhode Island New!
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The polarizing or petrographic microscope is distinguished from the more usual biological microscope in that it is equipped with a rotating stage and two polarizing filters, one below the stage and the other above it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crossed polars view, alkali dolerite, twinned plagioclase, bright interference colours, absorption colour, extinction angle, extinction position, micaceous sandstone, alkali feldspar, low birefringence, quartz arenite, good cleavage, plagioclase feldspar, euhedral crystals, perfect cleavage, one cleavage, olivine crystals, basaltic composition, feldspar crystals, hand specimen, nepheline syenite, prismatic crystals, mounting medium, light view Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, Middle Jurassic, Northern England, Shiant Isles, Upper Carboniferous, Fort Dauphin, Ile de Groix, Lower Jurassic, Rhode Island New!
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- Colour Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section Hb by W S Mackenzie in Front Matter
- Rocks and Minerals (Color and Learn) by Kathy Rogers in Front Matter
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