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    Tourmaline: Ring Silicates Trigonal (+)

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    The document describes the mineralogical properties of tourmaline including that it is a ring silicate with trigonal symmetry, moderate relief, and colors including brown, blue, and pink. It also notes examples of tourmaline found in various rock samples from locations like the Megilligar Rocks and St Austell Granite, often showing color zoning and epitaxial growth under plane and crossed polarized light microscopy.

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    The document describes the mineralogical properties of tourmaline including that it is a ring silicate with trigonal symmetry, moderate relief, and colors including brown, blue, and pink. It also notes examples of tourmaline found in various rock samples from locations like the Megilligar Rocks and St Austell Granite, often showing color zoning and epitaxial growth under plane and crossed polarized light microscopy.

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    The document describes the mineralogical properties of tourmaline including that it is a ring silicate with trigonal symmetry, moderate relief, and colors including brown, blue, and pink. It also notes examples of tourmaline found in various rock samples from locations like the Megilligar Rocks and St Austell Granite, often showing color zoning and epitaxial growth under plane and crossed polarized light microscopy.

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    Tourmaline: Ring Silicates Trigonal (+)

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    Charmaine Dela Cruz
    The document describes the mineralogical properties of tourmaline including that it is a ring silicate with trigonal symmetry, moderate relief, and colors including brown, blue, and pink. It also notes examples of tourmaline found in various rock samples from locations like the Megilligar Rocks and St Austell Granite, often showing color zoning and epitaxial growth under plane and crossed polarized light microscopy.

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    Tourmaline

    Ring silicates trigonal (+) Relief - moderate Colour - brown, blue, pink RI - 1.610-1.655 Birefringence - 0.021-0.026 Interference colours - 2nd-3rd order Extinction - straight Comments

    brown, colour-zoned tourmaline PPL Aplite, Megilligar Rocks

    colour zoned tourmaline with quartz PPL St Austell Granite

    colour zoned tourmaline with quartz; the image above under crossed-polars XPL St Austell Granite

    Above; brown tourmaline with epitaxial growth of acicular blue tourmaline (left) and the same field of view rotated through 90 to show the extreme pleochroism (right) < the same crystals under crossed polars

    St Austell Granite

    brown primary tourmal with epitaxial growth of blue secondary tourmaline in PPL (left) and XPL (right)

    Luxullianite, St Austell Granite

    Tourmaline 'suns' in PPL (left) and XPL (right), the latter showing the straight extinction cross Luxullianite, St Austell Granite

    prismatic crystal of tourmaline in PPL (left) and XPL (right). St Austell Granite

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