On the origin of anomalous birefringence in grandite garnets

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 445-459

  Shtukenberg, A G ^a   Punin, Y O ^a   Frank Kamenetskaya, O V ^a   Kovalev, O G ^a   Sokolov, P B ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Grandite garnet; Growth dissymmetrization; Mali; Russia; Stress birefringence

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALS; GARNETS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COMPLEX OPTICAL PATTERNS;

MINERALOGY;

BIREFRINGENCE; GARNET; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

MALI; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0035363120     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/002646101300119538     Document Type: Article

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