Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-8zxtt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-10T18:28:08.198Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Extinction-Angles in Cleavage-Flakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Extract

Now that the measurement of extinction-angles in cleavage-flakes is frequently used to assist in the identification of minerals, the question of the relation of angles so measured to the orientation of the optic axes is one that must frequently arise. I confine myself here to the case of monoclinic minerals, such as hornblende and augxte, in which the optic axes are parallel to the clinopinacoid and the cleavage is prismatic.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1893

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Note

1 See (e.g.) Fletcher, Min. Mag. (1891), vol. IX., p. 341.