OPTICAL MINERALOGY

You have reached the home page for the Year 2 Optical Mineralogy course offered at Brock University. These web pages, like all others, are constantly being updated. Currently the browser may burrow deeper into the course. Links are provided to full course notes, handouts, all overheads and copies of all labs.

• Introduction

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• Lecture Outline
• Laboratory Outline

Mineral Gallery

A collection of plane light and crossed polarized views of 27 common isotropic, uniaxial and biaxial minerals. Each individual mineral page also contains a summary of the optical properties useful in recognition. The minerals represent those covered in Optical Mineralogy (ERSC 2P22) with the remainder being introduced in Petrology and Petrography (ERSC 3P21).

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