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Apatite

Foyaite (nepheline syenite)
Katzenbuckel, Odenwald, Germany
Source: Thin section collection Institut für Mineralogie und Mineralische Rohstoffe, TU Clausthal
Photos: MMR
Comments and references:
 
  PPL

Basal sections (orthogonal to c) (A)
Basal sections (orthogonal to c) (B)
Section ∥ c, c ∥ pol plane: crystal in centre (C)
 
 
  +Pol

Basal sections (orthogonal to c, isotropic sections) (A)
Basal sections (orthogonal to c, isotropic sections) (B)
Section ∥ c, diagonal position: crystal in centre (C)
Section ∥ c, diagonal position, +1λ (C)
 

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Width of view   Pol orientation
 
 1 mm
   
 W-E
     

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