Contents

Part 1

Production of thin sections

• Exercise 1: Producing a formatted rock preparation
• Exercise 2: Preparation of an embedding preparation
• Exercise 3: Production of flat lapped rock preparations
• Exercise 4: Production of flat-lapped glass objet carriers
• Exercise 5: Gluing flat lapped rock specimens onto microscope slides
• Exercise 6: Thinning the bonded rock specimens on the CS 30 thin section saw
• Exercise 7: Final lapping of the rock specimens to thin section thickness (30 µm)
• Exercise 8: Producing a high-quality thin polish

Target: Learning skills in handling devices and equipment for thin section preparation

Part 2

Thin sections under the polarising microscope

Target: Description and determination of minerals under the polarisation microscope to verify the source rock