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Garnet Group Minerals: Cubic

This document discusses the optical properties of garnet group minerals found in various locations. Specifically, it notes that garnet from Anglesey, Wales is pale pink to colorless, isotropic, and found in blueschist. It also describes euhedral garnet found in pyroxene from Kohistan, Pakistan and subhedral garnet with epidote and glaucophane from Syros, Greece.

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Garnet Group Minerals: Cubic

This document discusses the optical properties of garnet group minerals found in various locations. Specifically, it notes that garnet from Anglesey, Wales is pale pink to colorless, isotropic, and found in blueschist. It also describes euhedral garnet found in pyroxene from Kohistan, Pakistan and subhedral garnet with epidote and glaucophane from Syros, Greece.

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Garnet Group Minerals

cubic Relief - high Colour - pale pink-colourless RI ~ 1.800 Birefringence - isotropic

opaque (isotropic) garnets in a blueschist XPL Anglesey, Wales

Garnet PPL

Euhedral garnet in green ompacitic pyroxene PPL Jijal Complex, Kohistan, Pakistan

Subhedral garnet with epidote and glaucophane PPL Syros, Greece

Subhedral garnet rich in inclusions. The grain shown above under crosed polars. XPL Syros, Greece

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