JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES, cilt.54, ss.1-21, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)
Red, orange, yellow and colorless chick-pea shaped Anatolian fire opals with massive translucent zoned inclusions, from the Kutahya-Saphane-Yeni Karamanca region in Turkey, investigated using optical microscopy (gemmoscope and polarizing), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), infrared spectroscopy (IR), thermogravimetric spectroscopy (TGA), and thermoluminescent spectroscopy (TL).