Calcite Thin Section

Aragonite is a polymorph of calcite in hand sample it can be distinguished from calcite by its lack of rhombohedral cleavage and in sufficiently translucent samples its lack of double refraction.

Calcite thin section. Small 250x250 max medium 500x500 max. The brighter mineral grains in the picture are dolomite and the darker grains are calcite. Aragonite is a polymorph of calcite.

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In thin section calcite can be distinguished by its parallel extinction. Photomicrograph of calcite under cross. Calcite and dolomite look similar under a microscope but thin sections can be etched and stained in order to identify the minerals.

Fine grained rocks particularly those containing minerals of high birefringence such as calcite are sometimes prepared as ultra thin sections an ordinary 30 μm thin section is prepared as described above but the slice of rock is attached to the glass slide using a soluble cement such as canada balsam soluble in ethanol to allow both sides to be worked on. Calcite thin section view description. A pre tsr calcite yellow arrow with bitumen filling the microfracture in calcite blue arrows implying that the calcite formed before the formation of fracture and oil charging well lj1 3470 40 m 11 382 91 ft.

Photomicrographs of calcite types and their fluid inclusions in the feixianguan formation. Photomicrograph of a thin section in cross and plane polarised light. High order colors under crossed polars very high relief that changes with rotation lower refractive index than dolomite simple twinning and lamellar twins on some crystal faces rhobohedral cleavage.

Calcite is almost indistinguishable from other minerals under plane polarized light. Symmetrical or inclined to the rhombohedral cleavages. Calcite form a complete solidi solution with rhodocrosite and partially with siderite smithsonite and magnesite.