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The biaxial ray surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

F. E. Tocher
F. E. Tocher*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Aberdeen
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Summary

Existing descriptions of the biaxial ray surface are, in general, misleading. A more accurate description, stressing the simplicity of the surface, is proposed and this is supported by numerous sections drawn through or near the singular points.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 250 , September 1960 , pp. 558 - 566
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1960

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