| | Book (edition) | groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding the mineral population with tens...lepidolite, wolfrarnite). In many cases, minerals have an intermediate composition between theoretical end-members...to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine), to an organization (e.g .. mgriite). to a journal (minrecordite)...form. Many minerals display characteristic twinning, an intergrowth of two or more individual crystals of...Miller indices are used. For instance, the symbol for an orthorhombic dipyramid form is { 111}, for a hexagonal | | | Book (edition) | 3751723/9780903056434_frontmatter.pdf by guest An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals Third Edition...Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Deer, W. A. An introduction to the rock-forming minerals. – 3rd...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Deer, W. A. (William Alexander) An introduction to the rock-forming minerals/W. A. Deer...petrological polarizing microscope which provides an overview of the minerals and their relationships...Enclosed inside the back cover of this third edition is an interactive CD ‘‘CrystalViewer 8.3’’ containing a |
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