Mineral Optics: Principles and Techniques

Description

Author: Phillips, William Revell (1929-)

Publisher: W.H. Freeman

Pub Date: 1971 (Second printing)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name on upper corner ffep.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Small smudge to bottom text block.

Notes: Textbook.  Basic petrography (the study of minerals in thin sections).  If you’re involved with examining rocks, minerals, meteorites or ceramics and want to know what their composition is, here’s your basic education.  Strangely, I would have thought this would have been updated many times over, but apparently not.