Sugestões para saber mais
Esta lista de livros, CD-ROM's e páginas de Internet permitem compreender os fundamentos da Mineralogia e entrar em contacto com outros assuntos relacionados com a microscopia óptica:

    Livros

  • Adams, A. E., MacKenzie, W. S. & Guilford, C. (1991): Atlas of sedimentary rocks under the microscope. Ed. Longman Scientific & Technical.
  • Blatt, H. & Tracy, R. (1996): Petrology: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. Ed. W. H. Frimman. N.Y.
  • Deer, W. A., Howie, R. A. & Zussman, J. (1981): Minerais constituintes das rochas – uma introdução. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa.
  • Dorado, A. C. (1989): Petrografia básica – texturas, clasificación y nomenclatura de rocas. Ed. Paraninfo, Madrid.
  • MacKenzie W.S. & Adams A.E. (1997): Atlas en color de rocas y minerales em lámina delgada. Masson, Barcelona.
  • MacKenzie, W. S., Donaldson, C. H. & Guilford, C. (1991): Atlas of igneous rocks and their textures. Ed. Longman Scientific & Technical.
  • Nesse, W.D. (2000): Introduction to mineralogy. Oxford University Press, New York.
  • Roubault, M. (1991): Determination des minéraux des roches au microscope polarisant. Ed. Lamarre-Poinat, Paris.
  • Shelley, D. (1995): Igneous and metamorphic rocks under the microscope: classification, textures, microstructures and mineral preferred orientations. Ed. Shapman Hall.
  • Yardley, B. W. D., MacKenzie, W. S. & Guilford, C. (1990): Atlas of metamorphic rocks and their textures. Ed. Longman Scientific & Technical.

    CD-ROM's

  • M. Dyar, R. Busch, C. Wiswall (1997): The study of minerals. Tasa Graphics Arts
  • Digital microscope. CD-ROM integrado na colecção Discovering Geology. The Open University, 2000, UK.

    Internet

  • J.B. Brilha, R. Henriques (2003): Rochas e Minerais de Portugal ao Microscópio. Win/Mac CD-ROM, Universidade do Minho (disponível nas Livrarias Almedina)
  • The virtual microscope. The Open University, UK.
    http://met.open.ac.uk/vms/vms.html
  • Minerals under the microscope. University of Bristol, UK. http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Geol/opmin/mins.html
  • Petroglyph Homepage. Brigham Young University, USA. http://www.geology.byu.edu/Petroglyph/
  • Introduction to the petrographic microscope. University of British Columbia, Canada. http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/labs/lab1.html
  • Glossary of microscopy terms. University of Minnesota, USA. http://charfacnu.cie.umn.edu/glossary/FrameGloss.html
  • Mineralogia óptica. Prof. António Nardy (Universidade Estadual Paulista)
    http://www.igce.unesp.br/igce/petrologia/nardy/elearn.html
  • Study of minerals with the petrographic microscope C. Díaz, B. Díaz, C. Fdez, A. Navarro
    http://edafologia.ugr.es/optmine/indexw.htm
  • Utiliser le microscope polarisant pour observer des lames minces de roches A. Daniel
    http://biogeol.free.fr/Fiches/F_micro-pola.htm
  • Introduction to Optical Microscopy, Digital Imaging, and Photomicrography M.W. Davidson, M. Abramowitz, Olympus America Inc., and The Florida State University.
    http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/index.html