A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Calcite rhomb showing double refraction |
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| Description | Calcite is one of the few common minerals that exhibits double refraction that can be seen without the naked eye. Double refraction produces two images when light is split into two rays that follow slightly different paths through a crystal. |
| Photographer | Twyla Baker. 2001-06-11. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection. |
| Key words | Calcite |
| Tech details | 390 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 670 |
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