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Atlas of Minerals in thin section
Non-silicates
Silicates
Nesosilicates
Sorosilicates
Cyclosilicates
Inosilicates
Phyllosilicates
Tectosilicates
Atlas of Rocks in thin section
Igneous Rocks
Peralkaline Granite thin section
Rhyolite thin section
Granite thin section
Syenite thin section
Dacite thin section
Granodiorite thin section
Andesite thin section
Diorite thin section
Basalt thin section
Gabbro thin section
Foid Syenite thin section
Ultramafic thin section
Lecture Notes
Basic Mineralogy
Systematic Mineralogy
Igneous Petrology
Sampling and sample preparation
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Quartz
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Quartz thin section
Apparently from the Saxon word querkluftertz, meaning cross-vein ore, which could easily have become condensed to querertz and then to quartz; the idea is...
