Atlas of
Hee acewentiecaulialancuy
Tena ebean eres leyal
“ W.S.MacKenzie and C. GuilfordContents
Preface iv
Insroduction
Brcfingence chart vi
Olivine
Monticellile 3
Chonrodite 4
Ziwon 6
Sphene 7
Garnet 8
Vewwvanite (Moerase) 9
Silimanite 10
Multite 12
Andatusice 13,
Andalusite & Sillimanite intergrowth 15
Kyanite 16
Topaz 17
Staurolite 18
Chlorivoid 19
Sapphirine 20
Eudialyte 2
Doisite 22
Epidowe 28
Piemontite 24
Allanite(Orthite)
Laweonite 26
Pumpellyite 27
Malte 28
Cordierite 30
ourmaline 32
xine 3
Orthapyroxere 35
Avge 36
Tiunaveite 37
Glinopyroxens & Orthopyroxene
imererowth 38
Aegirineaugite 39
Jadeite 40
Wollastonite 41
Pectolite 42
Anthophyllite- Gedrite 43,
Cummingtonite Grunerite 44
Tremolite Ferroaetinolite 45
Horblende 46
Kaersutite 48
jucophane 49
Arfvedsonite 50
‘Acnigmatite 51
Astrophyllite 52
Lamprophyllite 53
Muscovite $4
Biotile $5
Stilpnomelane $7
Pyrophyllite 58
Tale 59
Chlorite 60)
Serpentine 62
Prohnite 63
Microcline 64
Perthite & Mieroperthite 65
Sanidine 66
Anorthockae 6?
Phigigelave 68
Quarty 70.
Myrmekite 72
Granophyrictexture 73,
Tridymite 74
Cristobatite 75
Nephieline 76
Sanidine & Nepheline 78
Leucite 79
Nosean 80
Canerinite $1
Scupolite 82
Analcite 83
Corundum $4,
Rutile 85
Perovskite 86
Spinel 87
Brucite 88
Calcite 89
Dolomite 90
Apatite 92
Fluorite 93
Deerite 94
Howieite 95
Zussmanite — %
Yoderite 97
Index 98Preface
The purpose of this book isto illustrate the appearance of many of the
coinmon tock-Fortinig minerals in (hie acetion under the microscope
It is bot our intention that it should be used as a substitute tor a
mineralogy jextbook but rather as a laboratory handbook for use in
practival classes together with one of the standard textbooks on
‘mineralogy.
"The idea of producing a series of photographs of minerals in thin
section came from two sources, The son of one of the authors
IR. MacKenzie, then in his second year as a student of geology
Suggested thit these would be a useful aid in recognizing minerals
under the microscope. On questioning undergraduates in second-year
Geology classes in Manchester University. why they preferred cert.
teatbooks to others, the answer was invariably that they found those
books which contained iNustrations accompanying the text parti-
ularly useful, especially when they could recognize under the
microscope features which could be seen in the photographs.
‘Some of the lextbooks which, in our opinion, contain the best
photomicrographs or drawings of minerals are rather old und are not
readily available to the student of today. Rosenbusch’s Mikroskop-
‘sche Petrographie der Mineratien und Gesteine. published in 1905, has
Some excellent photomicrographs printed in black and white, while
Teall’s Brith Petrography, published in 1888, has beautiful drawings
which appear to have heen hand-coloured before reproduction by
printing. HG, Smith's "Minerals and the Microscope”. firs! printed
in 1914, bas been found useful by generations. of students of
elementary mineralogy because of the high quality of the illustrations,
It scemed to us that if we could reproduce faithfully, by colour
photography, the appearance of minerals under the microscope both
in plane-polarized light and under crossed polars, the usefulness of
photomicrographs asa teaching aid would be increased enormously.
The majority of the photographs were made from thin sections of
cocks in the teaching collections of the Geology Department im
Manchester University and we are grateful to many of our collex ues
in Manchester for providing us with thin sections, We are particularly
indebted to Professor. Zussman lor his enthusiasm and encourage
iment to us lo undertake this work and {9 Dr.$.0, Agrell of the
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology of Cambridge University
who very kindly found, from the Harker Collection in Cambridge,
number of additional thin sections. Dr, Ageell and Professor W. A.
Deer very generously agreed 1o look at most of the photographs we
hhad made and helped us to decide whether they were suitable or could
be improved, The authors alone are responsible tor any deficiencies
which are sill present in the photographs. Weare also grateful to Dr. J
Wadsworth of the Manchester Department for making a number of
‘useful suggestions for improving the descriptions of the photo
icrogeaphs but again we alone are responsible for any errors which
‘appear here. Finally we are much indebted to Miss Patricia Crook
who typed the text, not once but innumerable times, until we fo
what we considered to be a compromise between too detailed and
brief descriptions of the photographs
‘We should like to thank the staffor the publishers, particularly
Bobbi Gouge, for their consideralion ard helpfulness in
preparation of this work