Diopside Thin Section
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Diopside thin section. Home rocks and minerals diopside thin section reference url share. Simple or multiple twins on f100g or f010g common. Diopside in thin section thin section gigapans.
Diopside thin section photomicrographs are taken in plane polarized light and cross polarized light and can easily be recognized under the microscope. Diopside ppl diopside plane polars. Diopside green diopside with red and white calcite.
Fair to good cleavage on 110 partings on 100 and 001 imperfect cleavage intersecting at 87º and 93º. Home atlas of minerals in thin section. Add tags comment rate.
To link to this object paste this link in email im or document to embed this object paste this html in website. As prismatic crystals with nearly square cross sections to 50 cm. Diopside in hand sample.
Short stubby prismatic crystals with square rectangular or eight sided cross section granular lamellar or columnar masses anhedral grains. Large number of pages viewed. Diopside in plane polars diopside in crossed polars.
Crystals are less commonly tabular. Granular columnar lamellar massive. Diopside in plane polarized light.