Optical mineralogy/
Paul F.Kerr
- 4th.ed.
- New york: Mcgraw-hill book company, 1977.
- xv, 492 p.
1: Mineral optics -- Mineral preparations for microscopic study -- The polarizing microscope -- A summary of the properties of light -- Refraction -- Plane polarized light in minerals -- Convergent polarized light -- The universal stage -- Observational features: crystallization, color, mode of aggregation, cleavage, and orientation -- Mineral fragments -- Systematic identification -- 2: Mineral descriptions -- Elements of hydroxides -- Carbonates, borates, sulfates, and phosphates -- Silicates: framework structures (tectosilicates) -- Silicates: chain structures (inosilicates) Silicates: single, multiple, and ring SiO₄ structures -- Silicates: sheet structures and mineraloids.