Atlas of Rock-forming Minerals in Thin Section

The Second Edition of this concise, clear, and handy-sized volume, highly respected and successful authors explain to the reader, with the help of 180 superb co

First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Identificationof rock-forming minerals in thin section is a key skill needed by all earth science students and practising geologists. This translation of the co

"A concise, straightforward, and balanced presentation of the theory and techniques of optical mineralogy. Design fro students to have a hand in the labratory."

Structured in the form of a dichotomous key, comparable to those widely used in botany, the mineral key provides an efficient and systematic approach to identif

'Hurray for Mackenzie and Guilford for at last we have a pictorial guide to the rock-forming minerals! . . . such feasts of colour in mineralogy books are rare

This concise, clear and handy–sized volume, aimed at the undergraduate level, provides an introduction to the observation, description and identifi cation in

The microscope is a familiar tool in the biological and medical sciences, and its application to the study of plant and animal tissues is well known. That it ca

This early work on mineralogy and petrography is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details on polarizing microscopes, mineral de

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