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Journal of Petrology | Volume 43 | Number 3 | Pages 579-580 | 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002

BOOK REVIEW

Optical Crystallography, by F. Donald Bloss. Mineralogical Society of America Monograph Series, No. 5., 1999 ISBN 0939950499. $32 ($24 for members). Hardback.

Nowadays, with so much petrological and mineralogical research carried out on polished material, using atomic number contrast (back-scattered electron) imaging on a scanning electron microscope–energy-dispersive system or microprobe, the publication of Donald Bloss’ book is a timely reminder that the fundamental tool for mineral identification is still the polarizing light microscope (PLM), particularly at the undergraduate level.

Optical Crystallography is an updated version of Bloss (1961)Go, and retains much of the 1961 version with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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