43+ Adularia Thin Section Gif
43+ Adularia Thin Section Gif. Adularia's long awaited another chart. Adularia, a feldspar mineral and potassium aluminosilicate (kalsi3o8).
Adularia is a gemmy variety of potassium feldspar and this specimen is from the bielig valley in valais, switzerland. Thin sections reveal that the veins are dominantly quartz with a few percent or less of sericite and a fraction of a percent or less of adularia appears to be replacing earlier bladed, hydrothermal calcite. Adularia to save 12% off on your order!
It can be difficult to see cleavage in thin section due to orthoclase's low.
In optical mineralogy and petrography, a thin section (or petrographic thin section) is a laboratory preparation of a rock, mineral, soil, pottery, bones, or even metal sample for use with a polarizing petrographic microscope, electron microscope and electron microprobe. I do have to say i was pretty let down by how easy this is. Adularia to save 12% off on your order! Adularia's long awaited another chart.