A colour atlas of rocks and minerals in thin section / Цветной атлас горных пород и минералов в шлифах

This atlas has been prepared for students of earth science, geology, mineralogy and physical geography who requ~re a text for practical classes on rocks and mInerals under the minoscope. While the book's prime purpose is as an introduction to the subject for college and university students as an essential part of their course, we hope that amateur geologists and mineralogists will also find it useful and attractrve.
We have tried to make the text and pictures self-contained such that an individual who has access to a polarizing microscope and a collection of thin sections of rocks can begin recognizing minerals and nammg mks without supervision. Our aim has been to provide a manual for use in practical classes by showing illustrations of some of the diagnostic properties of minerals and introducing the most common rock-forming minerals.We then illustrate a representative selection of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.  <...>