Hello All,
I'm happy to see this appear on the meteorite list! I am Marvin Killgore's
assistant and want to make sure that you all know where to locate this book.
The website you can order it from is located at:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~arlablue/NineCircles
Cheers!
Alyssa La Blue
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Alyssa R. La Blue
Research Laboratory Assistant
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
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Hello All,
In the 2005 June issue of MAPS, you'll find a book review of Marvin
Killgore's Book on Thin Sections. For those who are into thin sections
but don't have a MAPS subscription, here is a scanned copy of H.C.
Connolly's book review:
D.S. LAURETTA, M. KILLGORE (2004) A Color Atlas of Meteorites in
Thin Section (301 pp., $98.00, hardcover (ISBN 0-97204-721-2):
As an undergraduate studying geological sciences at Rutgers University, I
remember my
mineralogy and petrology courses very well. I can remember going to the book
store to
purchase the books I needed for my courses and sitting down in the aisle
reading through
the two now farnous atlases of MacKenzie and Guilford (1980) and MacKenzie et
al. (1982).
As I started to read them in the aisle, I was totally captivated as, for the
very first
time, I saw images of minerals and rock textures through plain and
crossed-polarized light.
I clearly remember the child-like joy I felt when examining these books. I
have used these
books time and time again and they live in a very prominent place on my
bookshelf and every
petrology course should use them.
Twenty years later, I was in the mail room in the departmental office of
Kingsborough and
noticed a package. I had been waiting for a new book, so I quickly opened the
package as
I walked from the mail room. To my great delight, it was the book I had been
waiting for.
I started to read through it as I walked up the stairs and was immediately
captivated in
a way that reminded me of my undergraduate days of reading through the
MacKenzie books.
I soon reached the middle of the hallway and sat down, still reading. Shortly
thereafter,
M i c h a e l W e i s b e r g and C y r e n a G o o d r i c h were
walking past me in
the hallway and soon joined me in curiously reading through the book and
admiring the
amazing photomicrographs of meteorites. It soon became apparent that I was
going to need
to have a proper read of it. As our little reading group broke up, I was
walking back to
my office when I heard Cyrena call down the hallway to me that she had wished
she had
such a book to learn with when she was first studying meteorites.
The book, A Color Atlas of Meteorites in Thin Section by Dante S. Lauretta
and Marvin
Killgore, is a compilation of classic examples of beautiful photomicrographs
of almost
every meteorite class and type and accompanied by short descriptions of each
class and
type.
Good night for today,
part 2 will follow
tomorrow,
Bernd
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