The purpose of this book is to serve the needs of students in learning the procedures and theory required to use the petrographic microscope. In the second edit

This book is the successor to A practical introduction to optical mineralogy, which was written in the early 1980s, and published by George Allen & Unwin in 198

Microscopy is a servant of all the sciences, and the microscopic examina tion of minerals is an important technique which should be mastered by all students of