Chlorite Thin Section

It shows some pleochroism in the range of green to pale yellow.

Chlorite thin section. However the term chlorite can be used both to describe the group in general or as a specific term to describe any green member of the chlorite group whose exact identity is not practical to be determined. Chlorite in castner marble. Large porphyroblasts of chloritoid exhibit greenish brown blue pleochroism blocky shapes and poor cleavage.

There are also books of chlorite visible at the edges of the chloritoid infilling pressure shadows. That can be readily split into thin flakes or slabs due to the well developed parallelism of more than 50 of the minerals present. Alex strekeisen i vetrini della mia fantasia.

Home atlas of minerals in thin section. Chlorite in thin section thin section gigapans. Chlorite schist plane polars chlorite schist crossed polars chlorite in augen gneiss plane polars chlorite in augen gneiss crossed polars chlorite with muscovite and quartz plane polars chlorite with muscovite and quartz crossed polars.

The thin section illustrates the folded metasedimentary banding with fine grained quartz muscovite and chlorite. Chlorite schist the word schist is derived from the greek word schízein meaning to split which is a reference to the ease with which schists can be split along the plane in which the platy minerals lie.