Optical Properties of Some Important Metamorphic Minerals
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/geology/course-material/LFT-GL2008/metamorphic-minerals.pdf


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This resource contains a list of 18 important metamorphic minerals and their optical properties. For each mineral, the following properties are listed: color, pleochroism, form, cleavage, relief, birefringence, extinction, and alteration. This resource is part of the Teaching Petrology collection. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/petrology03/index.html

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