Marcasite - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Florias Mees, Georges Stoops, in Interpretation of Micromorphological Features of Soils and Regoliths, 2010. 2.2 Sulphides Other than Pyrite. Marcasite (FeS 2) is opaque in transmitted light and has an appearance similar to that of pyrite in OIL.In reflected light microscopy, the strong anisotropy of marcasite can allow a distinction with pyrite. In a rare study of marcasite in recent ...