Links

Optical microscopy

    Olympus - Introduction to optical microscopy

    Nikon - Introduction to optical microscopy

Web sites maintained by microscope vendors that have tutorials on the optical microscope. Comprehensive discussions, many with active animations and illustrations.    

Mineral Identification

Mineralogy Database – Contains 4,281 individual mineral species descriptions with links. Information on physical properties, x-ray data, chemistry, pictures and links to other web sites. This is an excellent source for all sorts of information about minerals and a good place to start any search for mineral information.

Descriptions of minerals in thin section

UMass Lowell Home Page
http://www.uml.edu

The UMass Lowell web site provides links to the web sites for  administrative and academic  colleges and departments throughout the University.

UMass Lowell Electronic Libraries
http://library.uml.edu

The UMass Lowell Electronic Libraries provide access to a wealth of periodicals, the card catalog and on-line resources.  Please note the some on-line databases can only be accessed via a UMass Lowell Internet address (I.P. Address).