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    Cordierite Hornfels Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Cordierite Hornfels thin section microscope slide exhibiting a dark colour and a characteristic none crystalline form. Fine grains fit together like the fragments of a mosaic, this is often referred to as rough pavement or pavement structure. Larger crystals of cordierite can be seen scattered throughout the fine matrix.

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    Eclogite Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Rare eclogite thin section slides cut from our Norwegian eclogite hand specimens. Eclogite is a rare rock, composed of mainly two minerals, reddish-brown garnets and Omphacite (green pyroxene), our thin sections exhibit this clearly.

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    Glaucophane Schist Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Glaucophane Schist thin section microscope slide exhibiting a clear fabric and a wonderful blue hue under plane polarised light. This material was collected from the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. Each section is made to 30 microns thickness and the glass is 46 x 27 mm, ideal for microscopy and educational purposes.

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    Gneiss Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Norwegian gneiss thin section slide exhibiting a dominant felsic composition i.e. quartz and plagioclase with less prominent mafic bands. We collected this material from Evje, Norway. Each section is made to 30 microns thickness and the glass is 46 x 27 mm, ideal for microscopy and educational purposes.

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    Greenschist Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Greenschist thin section microscope slides from North Wales exhibiting the minerals that give this rock its green colouration, serpentine and chlorite. The thin sections also display platy minerals such as muscovite mica. Each section is made to 30 microns thickness and the glass is 46 x 27 mm, ideal for microscopy and educational purposes.

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    Hornblende Gneiss Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Hornblende Gneiss thin section slide exhibiting an abundance of the mafic mineral hornblende, accompanied by less abundant biotite mica, quartz and feldspar. This material was collected by staff from Southern Norway. Each section is made to 30 microns thickness and the glass is 46 x 27 mm in size, ideal for microscopy and educational purposes.

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    Hornfels Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Hornfels thin section microscope slide exhibiting a dark colour and a characteristic none crystalline form. Fine grains fit together like the fragments of a mosaic, this is often referred to as rough pavement or pavement structure. Larger quartz clasts are visible but these have recrystallised to form a fine, interlocking mosaic of quartz within the original grain cast.

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    Marble Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Marble thin section microscope slide exhibiting and a high birefringence, twinning and an interlocking nature setting it apart from the sedimentary quartzite rocks which we also supply. The glass is 46 x 27 mm in size, supplied in a protective card sleeve with a label, ideal for microscopy, petrography & educational use.

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    Mica Schist Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Mica schist thin section microscope slide exhibiting an alignment of platy minerals within this popular metamorphic rock. These rock specimens are from the Dalradian series, a complicated group of various metamorphic rocks which are dated to the Pre-Cambrian period,

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    Mylonite Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    A thin section of mylonite which was collected from the metamorphic region of Lom, Central Norway. Mylonite is a fine-grained, compact rock produced by dynamic recrystallisation of the constituent minerals resulting in a reduction of the grain size of the rock.

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    Phyllite Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Phyllite thin section microscope slide exhibiting textbook crenulated cleavage and occasional garnets ideal for those who want to practice the recognition of metamorphic textures in thin section. The glass is 46 x 27 mm in size, supplied in a protective card sleeve with a label, ideal for microscopy, petrography & educational use.

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    Slate Slide £18.00 ex VAT

    Slate microscope thin section slide exhibiting a slight slaty fabric formed by the growth of mica. This material was collected from North Wales and dates back to the Cambrian period. The glass is 46 x 27 mm in size, supplied in a protective card sleeve with a label, ideal for microscopy, petrography & educational use.

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