 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com An introduction to the use of thin sections in the study of petrography--the scientific description of rocks. It covers all rock types--igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic--and provides readers with an excellent overview of the subject. Average Customer Rating:  
good little text book
| Customer Rating: | | i'm a second year geology student and this book was an excellent companion during mineralogy and petrology labs |
good book but shipping took forever
| Customer Rating: | | good deal on my book purchase but it seriously took 3+ weeks for my book to arrive. |
An Excellent book
| Customer Rating: | | The book is written in a consise and well laid out manner. As the previous writer stated, the colour photos are priceless and are exactly as you would see looking through a petrological microscope both in crossed polars and thin section |
Covers polarised and cross-polars nicely
| Customer Rating: | I believe this book is ideal for a second year University student to learn to identify rocks and common forming minerals under the microscope.
Regardless of earlier critics, this book is only intended as a help to identify common minerals and nothing else. I personally found it very useful, the colour images are worth more than a thousand printed words. |
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