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Tourmaline

Tourmaline-biotite-muscovite-chlorite 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 schist)
 
  PPL

Variable crystal orientations; section ∥ c, c orthogonal to pol plane: crystal centre-top; oblique and basal sections
Variable crystal orientations; section ∥ c, c ∥ pol plane: crystal centre-right; oblique and basal sections
Variable crystal orientations; section ∥ c, diagonal position: elongate crystals upper centre; oblique and basal sections
 
 
  +Pol

Variable crystal orientations; sections ∥ c, diagonal position (max Δn): crystals upper centre, oblique and basal (isotropic) sections
Variable crystal orientations; sections ∥ c, diagonal position: elongate crystals upper centre; +1λ
 

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Width of view   Pol orientation
 
 1 mm
   
 W-E
     

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