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  • Petrography (redirect from Petrographic)
    ISBN 978-1-78570-806-0. OCLC 1017581916. Atlas of Rocks, Minerals, and Textures Petrographical description of rocks and minerals. Uncommon igneous, metamorphic and...
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    A petrographic microscope is a type of optical microscope used to identify rocks and minerals in thin sections. The microscope is used in optical mineralogy...
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  • A petrographic province is a geological region within which the igneous rocks reveal a relationship (so-called consanguinity) in chemical composition,...
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    section (or petrographic thin section) is a thin slice of a rock or mineral sample, prepared in a laboratory, for use with a polarizing petrographic microscope...
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    reported finding microscopic fragments of crinoids in this limestone. Later petrographic analysis of samples of the limestone from near the summit revealed them...
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    analysis, petrologists analyze thin sections of rock samples using a petrographic microscope, where the minerals can be identified through their different...
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  • University of Berlin. He may be regarded as one of the founders of petrographical science. In his published papers he dealt with metamorphism and crystalline...
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    to characterize mineralogically, it has a well-established place in petrographical classifications because these peculiar composite arenaceous deposits...
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    54°26′49″N 3°03′50″W / 54.447°N 3.064°W / 54.447; -3.064 The Langdale axe industry (or factory) is the name given by archaeologists to a Neolithic centre...
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    eruptions (e.g. the eruption in 1631 displaying a complete stratigraphic and petrographic description: phonolite was firstly erupted, followed by a tephritic phonolite...
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    original (PDF) on March 17, 2011. George, A.M.. State Electricity Victoria, Petrographic Report No 17. 1975; Perry, G.J and Allardice, D.J. Coal Resources Conference...
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  • and later on in the Ming dynasty, seals. Shou (character), meaning longevity A Mineralogical and Petrographical Study of Shoushan Stone (Agalmatolite)...
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    plutonic rocks are distinctly basic; the archipelago is a soda-alkaline petrographic province, with a petrologic succession similar to that found in other...
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  • A felsic volcanic lithic fragment, as seen in a petrographic microscope. Scale box is in millimeters....
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    New Delhi: S. Chand & Co. Ltd. 2006. 74. Print "S. Pavia and S. Caro, "Petrographic Microscope Investigation of Mortar and Ceramic Technologies for the Conservation...
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    A sand grain of volcanic glass under the petrographic microscope. Its amorphous nature makes it disappear in cross-polarized light (bottom frame). The...
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    quality of crystal faces is diagnostic of some minerals, especially with a petrographic microscope. Euhedral crystals have a defined external shape, while anhedral...
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    dacitic components of the stonehenge landscape bluestone lithology: New petrographical and geochemical evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume...
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    in place, rather than quarried and moved, archaeological evidence and petrographic analysis indicate this was not the case. Petrie noted in 1880 the four...
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    An aphanitic volcanic sand grain, with fine-grained groundmass, as seen through a petrographic microscope...
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