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structural petrology
The analysis of fabric on the thin-section or micro scale. It includes the study of grain shapes and relationships (microstructure) and the study of crystallographic preferred orientations. The transmission electron microscope is also employed to examine the substructures of deformed crystals.
- Kalbos dalis: noun
- Pramonės šaka / sritis: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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