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Tourmaline

Tourmaline-chlorite-phlogopite rock
Plankogel, Carinthia, Austria
Source: Thin section collection M.M. Raith
Photos: MMR
Comments and references:
From metasomatic blackwall separating ultramafic lenses and muscovite-kyanite-staurolite schists (proximal to ultramafic rock)
 
  PPL

Variable crystal orientations; six-sided basal sections (orthogonal to c): crystals u.l.
Variable crystal orientations; six-sided basal sections (orthogonal to c): crystals u.r.; 90° rotation from previous position
 
 
  +Pol

Variable crystal orientations; six-sided basal sections (orthogonal to c, isotropic sections): crystals u.r.
 

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Width of view   Pol orientation
 
 1 mm
   
 W-E
     

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