Page 7 - Microtectonics

Preface VII
Throughout the text, words written in italics indicate items that are introduced for
the first time, most of which are explained in the glossary and can be found in the
index. In the figure captions, PPL and CPL mean plane polarised and crossed polar-
ised light, respectively. Provenance of the photographed thin sections is given where
known. For some thin sections in the old collection from Leiden, the provenance is
unknown and these were marked as ‘Leiden Collection’. The scale of the photographs
is given as a width of view.
The accompanying CD contains full colour versions of all drawings and of many
photographs in the book, animations of figures in the book and videos of deformation
experiments, a number of additional colour photographs, figures from the boxes, an
explanation on the use of the U-stage, the glossary and 35 photographs of examples of
common problems in microtectonics meant to be used as interpretation exercises. The
CD also contains a search option for figure captions and the glossary. Since all figures
in the book are also on the CD, there is no separate reference for them in the text of the
book. Additional colour photographs of items on the CD which do not appear in the
book are marked in the text with ‘×Photo’. Where these show similar items as figures
in the book, they have been given the same number. Animations and videos are both
marked as ‘×Video’. If they animate figures from the book or show similar features,
they have been given the same number as relevant figures in the book.

C.W. Passchier
R.A.J. Trouw