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Kerr devotes significant space to ensuring the student understands why minerals behave the way they do under the microscope. Key topics include:

Paul F. Kerr’s "Optical Mineralogy" is a foundational textbook detailing the theory and techniques for identifying minerals in thin sections via petrographic microscopes. The text covers essential principles like birefringence, interference figures, and the Berek compensator, alongside detailed optical properties for over 450 minerals. Review digital versions of this text via Internet Archive or Scribd . OPTICAL MINERALOGY Optical Mineralogy Paul F Kerr.pdf

“Low. Almost feldspathic, but the color is wrong for plagioclase.” Kerr devotes significant space to ensuring the student