TY - BOOK AU - Kerr, Paul F. TI - Optical mineralogy SN - 0070342180 U1 - 549.125 PY - 1977/// CY - New York PB - Austin F. Rogers KW - Optical mineralogy KW - Mineralogy, Determinative N1 - 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 ER -