Optical Microscopy Study of how light passes through thin sections – rock cut and polished to about 0.3 mm thickness Use properties of light absorption.
Optical Mineralogy in a Nutshell Use of the petrographic microscope in three easy lessons Part I © Jane Selverstone, University of New Mexico, 2003 Used.
Optical Mineralogy Use of the petrographic microscope © John Winter, Whitman College with some slides © Jane Selverstone, University of New Mexico, 2003.
Selverstone Optical Min1 Mod 2
Optical Mineralogy in a Nutshell