"The key for identification of rock-forming minerals provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying minerals in thin-section. It is structured in the form of a dichotomous key, ...
The MIST team, from left to right, Yueyang Jiang, Kirsten Siebach, Gelu Costin and Eleanor Moreland (Photo credit: Linda Fries/Rice University). Identifying a mineral might sound straightforward: ...