[meteorite-list] Thin Section "How-To" on Ebay<--Thumbs Down

From: MEM <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 02:42:19 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <418359.87190.qm_at_web55203.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

UPDATE: This prining hasn't been updated since first written and I give it both thumbs down. I am now mounting my return attempt. I cannot recommend it even for fire starting. There were no photos period and especially "acid trip" colored ones.

This addresses nothing of the advances in technology over the past 100 years.

Looks like one of those books which the copyright was expired:someone scanned the book and ran off a batch and put them on Ebay.

Thanks Gary for your other recommendations.
Elton

--- On Sat, 11/28/09, Gary Fujihara <fujmon at mac.com> wrote:

> From: Gary Fujihara <fujmon at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thin Section "How-To" on Ebay
> To: "MEM" <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "metlist" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 3:15 AM
> Aloha Elton,
>
> Thanks for the heads up on the book, which was originally
> published in 1911.? A search on Amazon.com has revealed
> additional tomes on the subject, which are listed here:
>
> Elements of Optical Mineralogy - An Introduction to
> Microscopic Petrography, Alexander Winchell, Bronson Press,
> March 2007, 256 pgs, $28.95
> http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Optical-Mineralogy-Introduction-Microscopic/dp/140670055X/ref=pd_sim_b_1
>
> Introduction to Optical Mineralogy, 3rd Edition & An
> Atlas of Minerals in Thin Section: Book & CD Pack
> (Hardcover), William D. Nesse, Oxford University Press, Feb
> 2004, 370 pgs, $113
> http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Optical-Mineralogy-Minerals-Section/dp/019522132X/ref=pd_sim_b_4
>
> Optical Mineralogy: Principals and Practice (paperback),
> Colin D Gribble, CRC, Sep 1993, 320 pgs, $56.31
> http://www.amazon.com/Optical-Mineralogy-Principles-Colin-Gribble/dp/1857280148/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259394407&sr=1-4
>
> A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section
> (paperback), W. S. MacKenzie, Wiley, March 1994, 192 pgs,
> $56.78
> http://www.amazon.com/Color-Atlas-Rocks-Minerals-Section/dp/0470233389/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259394588&sr=1-6
>
> Minerals in Thin Section 2nd Edition (spiral-bound), Dexter
> Perkins, Prentice Hall, June 2003, 176 pgs, $51.13
> http://www.amazon.com/Minerals-Thin-Section-Dexter-Perkins/dp/0131420151/ref=pd_sim_b_1
>
> Interesting subject ... just what I need, more books,
> petrographic microscope, thin sections, $$$, ...
>
> gary
>
> On Nov 27, 2009, at 4:29 PM, MEM wrote:
>
> > For all the aspiring "thin section-ographers" and for
> those who just like the acid pictures...
> >
> > "Introduction to Optical Mineralogy and Petrography -
> The Practical Methods of Identifying Minerals in Thin
> Section with the Microscope and the Princip - Edwards, M.
> G."
Received on Wed 09 Dec 2009 05:42:19 AM PST