2. Basic components: minerals

 

Rock fragments

 

They are determined according to the petrographic handbooks. If the exact petrographic name cannot be given, indications must at least be stated concerning the mineralogical composition and the type of rock (plutonic, volcanic, metamorphic or sedimentary).

In this Web server on the Photograph Atlas pages there is a section dedicated to rocks

 

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