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Thin section

In optical mineralogy and petrography, a thin section (or petrographic thin section) is a thin slice of a rock or mineral sample, prepared in a laboratory, for use with a polarizing petrographic microscope, electron microscope and electron microprobe. A thin sliver of rock is cut from the sample with a diamond saw and ground optically flat.

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Thin section

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Edges55
Triples32
Avg. degree1.96
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related to Determining provenance · 9
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related to Ultra-thin sections · 6
Thin section → An, Canada, Fine-grained, Lochseitenkalk, The, This
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Thin section → Ceramography

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Canada balsaminstance ofAn ordinary 30 μm thin section is prepared as described above but the slice of rock is attached to the glass slide using a soluble cement0.80text
the Lochseitenkalk mylonite in which the matrix grains are less than 5 μm in sizeinstance ofThis technique has been used to study the microstructure of fine-grained carbonates0.80text
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