A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section

A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section

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Manufacturer: Wiley
Author: W. S. MacKenzie
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 1994-03-08
Publisher: Wiley
Label: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 192
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Editorial Review:
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 metamorphic—and provides readers with an excellent overview of the subject.
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating:

good little text book

2008-10-10
i'm a second year geology student and this book was an excellent companion during mineralogy and petrology labs

good book but shipping took forever

2005-10-04
good deal on my book purchase but it seriously took 3+ weeks for my book to arrive.

An Excellent book

2005-10-03
The book is written in a consise and well laid out manner. As the previous writer stated, the colour photos are priceless and are exactly as you would see looking through a petrological microscope both in crossed polars and thin section

Covers polarised and cross-polars nicely

2004-05-20
I believe this book is ideal for a second year University student to learn to identify rocks and common forming minerals under the microscope.
Regardless of earlier critics, this book is only intended as a help to identify common minerals and nothing else. I personally found it very useful, the colour images are worth more than a thousand printed words.

Avoid confusion!

2003-12-31
I agree with the reviewer from Fairbanks: this book should not be confused with the Mackenzie and Guilford atlas. The Atlas of *Rocks* and Minerals tries to be too comprehensive (by including both rocks and minerals) and in doing so has lost all of the information about less common and accessory minerals that was in the Mackenzie and Guilford text. Of course, much of what's in both books is now available on the Web, but it's still hard to find large format color photos like the ones in Mackenzie and Guilford.

Another (less expensive) alternative is A.R. Philpotts' "Petrography of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks." In my experience as a student and then a TA in a mineralogy course, Philpotts' book does a better job of pointing out the distinctive characteristics of minerals than do the photographic atlases.

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