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57 relations: Afwillite, Alfred Harker, Alkali basalt, All That Glisters (Space: 1999), Auguste Michel-Lévy, Becke line test, Bird's eye maple (mineral property), Braggite, Ceramic petrography, Clay minerals, Coal ball, Conoscopic interference pattern, Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Crenulation, Dinosaur egg, Dinosaur tooth, Edenite, Ernst Weinschenk, Extinction (optical mineralogy), Fülöppite, Fission track dating, Frank Dawson Adams, Fredrik Johan Wiik, Friedrich Rinne, Gazzi-Dickinson method, Geology, Henry Fox Talbot, Hermann Ambronn, Hyalopilitic, Igneous petrology, Interference colour chart, Isotropy, John Arthur Phillips, Julgoldite, Laplandite-(Ce), Maceral, Microcline, Mineralogy, Museum Boerhaave, Norite, Optical microscope, Optical mineralogy, Paulingite, Petrography, Polarized light microscopy, Sedimentary rock, Sewardite, Simpsonite, Soil morphology, Spurrite, ..., Structural geology, Thin section, Titanite, Todorokite, Waveplate, Widgiemoolthalite, Wilbur B. Rayton. Expand index (7 more) »
Afwillite
Afwillite is a calcium hydroxide nesosilicate mineral with formula Ca3(SiO3OH)2·2H2O.
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Alfred Harker
Alfred Harker FRS (19 February 1859 – 28 July 1939) was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography.
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Alkali basalt
Alkali basalt or alkali olivine basalt is a fine-grained, dark-coloured, volcanic rock characterized by phenocrysts of olivine, titanium-rich augite, plagioclase feldspar and iron oxides.
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All That Glisters (Space: 1999)
"All That Glisters" is the fourth episode of the second series of Space: 1999 (and the twenty-eighth overall episode of the programme).
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Auguste Michel-Lévy
Auguste Michel-Lévy (7 August 184427 September 1911) was a French geologist.
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Becke line test
The Becke line test is a technique in optical mineralogy that helps determine the relative refractive index of two materials.
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Bird's eye maple (mineral property)
Bird's eye maple, or bird's eye extinction, is a specific type of extinction exhibited by minerals of the mica group under cross polarized light of the petrographic microscope.
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Braggite
Braggite is a sulfide mineral of platinum, palladium and nickel with chemical formula: (Pt, Pd, Ni)S.
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Ceramic petrography
Ceramic petrography (or ceramic petrology) is a laboratory-based scientific archaeological technique that examines the mineralogical and microstructural composition of ceramics and other inorganic materials under the polarised light microscope in order to interpret aspects of the provenance and technology of artefacts.
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Clay minerals
Clay minerals are hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, sometimes with variable amounts of iron, magnesium, alkali metals, alkaline earths, and other cations found on or near some planetary surfaces.
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Coal ball
A coal ball is a type of concretion, varying in shape from an imperfect sphere to a flat-lying, irregular slab.
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Conoscopic interference pattern
A conoscopic interference pattern or interference figure is a pattern of birefringent colours crossed by dark bands (or isogyres), which can be produced using a geological petrographic microscope for the purposes of mineral identification and investigation of mineral optical and chemical properties.
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Cooke, Troughton & Simms
Cooke, Troughton & Simms was a British instrument-making firm formed in York in 1922 by the merger of T. Cooke & Sons and Troughton & Simms.
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Crenulation
In a geological context, crenulation or crenulation cleavage is a fabric formed in metamorphic rocks such as phyllite, schist and some gneiss by two or more stress directions causing the formation of the superimposed foliations.
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Dinosaur egg
Dinosaur eggs are the organic vessels in which a dinosaur embryo develops.
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Dinosaur tooth
Dinosaur dental histology is the study of the dental microanatomy of dinosaur teeth.
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Edenite
Edenite is a double chain silicate mineral of the amphibole group with the general chemical composition NaCa2Mg5(Si7Al)O22(OH)2.
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Ernst Weinschenk
Ernst Heinrich Oskar Kasimir Weinschenk (6 April 1865, Esslingen am Neckar – 26 March 1921, Munich) was a German mineralogist and petrologist.
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Extinction (optical mineralogy)
Extinction is a term used in optical mineralogy and petrology, which describes when cross-polarized light dims, as viewed through a thin section of a mineral in a petrographic microscope.
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Fülöppite
Fülöppite is a rare member of the plagionite group, comprising heteromorphite Pb7Sb8S19, plagionite Pb5Sb8S17 and semseyite Pb9Sb8S21.
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Fission track dating
Fission track dating is a radiometric dating technique based on analyses of the damage trails, or tracks, left by fission fragments in certain uranium-bearing minerals and glasses.
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Frank Dawson Adams
Frank Dawson Adams (September 17, 1859 – December 26, 1942) was a Canadian geologist.
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Fredrik Johan Wiik
Fredrik Johan Wiik, also known as F.J. Wiik, (16 December 1839 in Helsinki – 15 June 1909 in Helsinki) was a Finnish geologist and mineralogist; in 1877, he was named the first professor of geology and mineralogy at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland, where his students included Jakob Sederholm and Wilhelm Ramsay.
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Friedrich Rinne
Friedrich Wilhelm Berthold Rinne (16 March 1863 in Osterode am Harz – 12 March 1933 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German mineralogist, crystallographer and petrographer.
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Gazzi-Dickinson method
The Gazzi-Dickinson method is a point-counting technique used in geology to statistically measure the components of a sedimentary rock, chiefly sandstone.
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Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (11 February 180017 September 1877) was a British scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
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Hermann Ambronn
Ernst Ludwig Victor Hermann Ambronn (11 August 1856, Meiningen – 28 March 1927, Jena) was a German botanist and microscopist.
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Hyalopilitic
Hyalopilitic is a textural term used in petrographic classification of volcanic rocks.
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Igneous petrology
Igneous petrology is the study of igneous rocks—those that are formed from magma.
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Interference colour chart
In optical mineralogy an interference colour chart, first developed by Auguste Michel-Lévy, is a tool to identify minerals in thin section using a petrographic microscope.
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Isotropy
Isotropy is uniformity in all orientations; it is derived from the Greek isos (ἴσος, "equal") and tropos (τρόπος, "way").
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John Arthur Phillips
John Arthur Phillips FRS, FCS (18 February 1822 – 5 January 1887) was a British geologist, metallurgist, and mining engineer.
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Julgoldite
Julgoldite is a member of the pumpellyite mineral series, a series of minerals characterized by the chemical bonding of silica tetrahedra with alkali and transition metal cations.
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Laplandite-(Ce)
Laplandite has a general formula of Na4CeTiPO4Si7O18•5H2O, and is found primarily in igneous rocks.
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Maceral
A maceral is a component, organic in origin, of coal or oil shale.
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Microcline
Microcline (KAlSi3O8) is an important igneous rock-forming tectosilicate mineral.
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Mineralogy
Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts.
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Museum Boerhaave
Museum Boerhaave is a museum of the history of science and medicine, based in Leiden, Netherlands.
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Norite
Norite is a mafic intrusive igneous rock composed largely of the calcium-rich plagioclase labradorite, orthopyroxene, and olivine.
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Optical microscope
The optical microscope, often referred to as the light microscope, is a type of microscope that uses visible light and a system of lenses to magnify images of small subjects.
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Optical mineralogy
Optical mineralogy is the study of minerals and rocks by measuring their optical properties.
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Paulingite
Paulingite or paulingite-K is a rare zeolite mineral that is found in vesicles in the basaltic rocks from the Columbia River near Rock Island Dam, Washington.
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Petrography
Petrography is a branch of petrology that focuses on detailed descriptions of rocks.
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Polarized light microscopy
Polarized light microscopy can mean any of a number of optical microscopy techniques involving polarized light.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
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Sewardite
Sewardite is a rare arsenate mineral with formula of CaFe2+3(AsO4)2(OH)2.
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Simpsonite
Simpsonite has a general formula of Al4(Ta,Nb)3O13(OH).
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Soil morphology
Soil morphology is the field observable attributes of the soil within the various soil horizons and the description of the kind and arrangement of the horizons.
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Spurrite
Spurrite is a white, yellow or light blue mineral with monoclinic crystals.
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Structural geology
Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories.
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Thin section
In optical mineralogy and petrography, a thin section (or petrographic thin section) is a laboratory preparation of a rock, mineral, soil, pottery, bones, or even metal sample for use with a polarizing petrographic microscope, electron microscope and electron microprobe.
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Titanite
Titanite, or sphene (from the Greek sphenos (σφηνώ), meaning wedge), is a calcium titanium nesosilicate mineral, CaTiSiO5.
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Todorokite
Todorokite is a rare complex hydrous manganese oxide mineral with the formula (Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)6O12·3-4H2O.
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Waveplate
A waveplate or retarder is an optical device that alters the polarization state of a light wave travelling through it.
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Widgiemoolthalite
Widgiemoolthalite is a rare hydrated nickel(II) carbonate mineral with the chemical formula.
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Wilbur B. Rayton
Wilbur B. Rayton was president of the Optical Society of America from 1933–34.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrographic_microscope
