Selected optical mineralogy Links


You may find some or all of the following useful, interesting or instructive (updated November 2004).
 
 
http://www.odp.usyd.edu.au/Clarke04/Hyperpetmag/WELCOME.htm  Superb! Geoffrey Clarke's microscopy pages for igneous mineralogy - inc. excellent tests and quizzes.
http://www.odp.usyd.edu.au/Clarke04/Hyperpetmet/WELCOME.HTM  Fantastic! Geoffrey Clarke's microscopy pages for metamorphic mineralogy - inc. excellent tests and quizzes.
http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/teach/opmin/mins.html  a simple but quite good treatment of some aspects of optics
http://mineral.gly.bris.ac.uk/Mineralogy/minIIhome.html more advanced - a lot of good stuff.
http://met.open.ac.uk/vms/vms.html the Open University's virtual microscope pages. Mainly an advert for theexcellent CD-ROM.
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links.html a good starting point - plenty of other links
http://www.uidaho.edu/~mgunter/geol249/geol249.html a mixture of stuff
http://www.brocku.ca/earthsciences/people/gfinn/optical/222lect.htm another advanced but very good mineralogy/optics course
http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/minerals/minerals.html Excellent atlas of minerals under the microscope.

 

Some freely downloadable mineralogy and other geological software.. (there are lots more of these….)
http://www.geol.uni-erlangen.de/html/software/soft.html starting point for various bits of geological software for download
http://www.geol.uni-erlangen.de/html/software/winsoft.html inlcudes Polmic - a PC-based mineral identification program for mineralsin TS.

John Faithfull November 2004

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