Indexes focussed on Mineralogy and Petrology, Other Geoscience Links, Looking for a Job. Alphabetical list of minerals - photomicrographs and descriptions. The Spindle Stage, Mickey Gunter Optical Mineralogy. Photomicroscopy of colorful crystals Petrographic Workshop Needs Apple MacIntosh Computer, CD rom player and Quicktime software. Thin sections of hundreds of rocks and minerals for student study.
Students can zoom in on the images in normal or cross-polarised light.
This is an interactive database designed to help students and teachers better deal with petrography. A source of mineralogical information used in the identification process of rocks and minerals. Detailed textual information and microscopic images of hundreds of rocks and minerals. Can be used as an interactive database or a teacher designed laboratory workshop. Under construction. .