If a mineral commonly has a range of colours it will appear once for each colour.
Marble thin section minerals.
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Within the tables minerals are arranged by colour so as to help with identification.
Biotite metaluminous granite showing a close up of one crystal.
The first is extremely fine with signs of dynamic recrystallization and the second exhibits texture and mgs similar to those of carrara marble.
Damage produced during thin section grinding causes speckles of light in the biotite where the crystal lattice has been deformed.
Identification tables for common minerals in thin section these tables provide a concise summary of the properties of a range of common minerals.
Microstructure and grain size measurements on thin sections of this marble identify two petrographic varieties.
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Castner marble from the franklin mountains in southwest texas castner marble featuring garnet porphyroblasts marble in thin section hellip.
This means that biotite in standard thin sections rarely goes completely extinct.