Most older texts on optical microscopy are still adequate for theory and as a reference for mineral identification and the optical properties of minerals. Do not ignore these older texts; many have a wealth of useful information.

Bisdom, E.B.A. (ed.) 1981. Submicroscopy of soils and weathered rocks. Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation, Wageningen.

Bisdom, E.B.A. and J. Ducloux (eds.) 1983. Submicroscopic studies of soils. Developments in soil science Vol. 12. Elseview Science Pub. Co. Inc., New York.

Brewer, R. 1976. Febric and mineral analysis of soils. Robert E. Krieger Pub. Co., Huntington, New York.

Brewer. R. and J.R. Sleemen. 1988. Soil structure and fabric. CSIRO Division of Soils. Adelaide, Australia.

Bullock, P. and C. P. Murphy (eds.) 1983. Soil micromorphology Vol 1: Techniques and applications. AB Academic Publishers, Berkhamsted, Herts, England.

Bullock, P. and C.P. Murphy (eds.) 1983. soil micromorpholgy Vol 2: Soil genesis. AB Academic Publishers, Berkhamsted, Herts, England.

Bullock P. et al. (eds.) 1985. Handbook for thin section description. WAINE Research Publications. Albrighton, Woverhampton, England.

Cady, J.G., L.P. Wilding and L.R. Drees. 1986. Petrographic microscope techniques. pp. 185-218. In A. Klute (ed.) Methods of soil analysis, Part I -- Physical and mineralogical methods. Agron. monograph no. 9 (2nd edition). Am. Soc. Agron., Madison.

Courty, M.A., P. Goldburg, and r. Macphail. 1989. Soils and micromorpholgy in archaeology, Cambridge University Press., Inc. New York.

Craig, J.R. and D.J. Vaughan. 1981. Ore microscopy and ore petography. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Douglas, L.A. (ed.) 1990. Soil micromorphology: A basic and applied science. Elsevier, New York.

Douglas, L.A. and M.L. Thompson (eds.) 1985. Soil Micromorphology and soil classification. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Spec. Pub. 15, Madison.

Drees, L.R. and M.D. Ransom. 1994. Light micrscopic techiques in quantitative soil mineralogy. p. 137-176. In J.E. Amonette and L.W. Zelazny (eds.) Quantitative methods in soil mineralogy. SSSA Misc. Pub. Soil Sci. Soc. Am., Madison.

Fedoroff, N., L.M. Bresson, and M.A. Courty (eds.). 1987. Soil Micormorpholgy. Proceedings of the VIIth International Working Meeting on Soil Micromorpholgy. Association Francaise pour l'Etude du Sol. Paris

FitzPatrick, E.A. 1984 Micromorphology of soils. Chapman and Hall, New York.

FitzPatrick, E.A., 1993. Soil microscopy and micromorphoogy. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Fleischer, M., R.E. Wilcox, and J.J. Matzko. 1984. Microscopic determination of the nonopaque minerals. U.S. Giological Survey Bull. 1627. U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington, DC.

Gribble, C.D. and A.J. Hall. 1992. Optical mineralogy: principles and practice. Chapman & Hall, New York.

Humphries, D.W. 1992. The preparation of thin sections of rocks, minerals, and ceramics. Microscopy Handbooks 24. Oxford University Press, New York.

Kerr, P.F. 1977. Optical mineralogy. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill, New York.

Kubiena, W.A. 1970. Micromorphological features of soil geography. Rutgers Univ. Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey.

MacKenzie, W.S. and A.E. Adams. 1994. A colour atlas of rocks and minerals in thin section. Manson Publishing, London.

Mermut A.R. (ed.). 1987. Micromorpholgy and submicroscopical studies of North American soils. Geoderma 40:1-236. (Special Issue)

Murphy, C.P. 1986. Thin section preparation of soils and sediments. A D Academic Publishers, Berkhamsted, U.K.

Nesse, W.D. 1991. Introduction to optical mineralogy. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, New York.

Phillips, W.R. 1971. Mineral optics: principles and techniques. W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco.

Phillips, W.R. and D.T. Griffen. 1981. Optical mineralogy: the nonopaque minerals. W.H. Freeman and Co., Sand Francisco.

Ringrose-Voase, A.J. and G.S. Humphreys (eds.) 1994. Soil micromorphology: studies in management and genesis. Elsevier, New York.

Robinson, P.C. and S. Bradbury. 1992. Qualitative polarized - light microscopy. Oxford University Press. New York.

rutherford, G.K. (ed.) 1974. Soil Microscopy. The Limestone Press. Kingston, Ontario.

Scholle, P.A. 1978. A color illustrated guide to carbonate rock constituents, textures, cements, and porosities. AAPG Memoir 27. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol, Tulsa.

Scholle, P.A. 1979. A color illustrated guide to constituents, textures, cements, and porosities of sandstones and associated rocks. AAPG Memoir 28. Am. Assoc. Petrol Geol., Tulsa.

Stoiber, R.E. and S.A. Morse. 1994. Crystal identification with the polarizing microscope. Chapman & Hall, New York.

Stoops, G. and H. Eswaran (eds.) 1986. Soil Micromorpholgy. Van Nostrand Reinhold. New York.

Yong, R.N. and B.P. Warkentin. 1975. Soil properties and behaviour. Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., New York.

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