CERBERUS investigates a wide range of minerals and whole rocks. The specific mineralogy (and chemistry) of the rocks is a key determinate of the reactivity of the samples. Understanding how these reactions are related to mineralogy is a key part of the CERBERUS project.

Below: This sliding image shows plagioclase feldspar in thin section viewed under plane and cross polarised light. The stripey feature is polysynthetic twinning - a characteristic of plagioclase feldspars.