Microtextures of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks

Microtextures of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
Title Microtextures of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks PDF eBook
Author J.P. Bard
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 289
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Science
ISBN 9400946406

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At a time when 'textural' evidence is regarded as being 'obvious' ( . . . ) it becomes more and more difficult to find illustrations or even descriptions of the arrangements of the various constituents of 'traumatized' rocks. It is helpful in consequence to advise geology students that the study of thin sections is not only concerned with the identification of their mineral content. To do so would mean they could not see the wood for the trees. Accurate identification of the indi vidual minerals that form rocks is fundamental in their description but the analysis of their textures and habits is also essential. Study of textural features enforces constraints upon the inter pretation of the origin and history of a rock. The analysis of micro textures cannot and should never be an aim in itself, out must be sup ported by qualitative and quantitative correlations with theories of petrogenesis. The aim here is to help the reader to bridge the gap between his observations of rocks unqer the microscope and petrogenetic theories. The habits or architectures of crystals in rocks may resemble those studied by metallurgists and glass scientists. Analysis of micro textures is undergoing change engendered by comparisonS between manu factured and hence minerals. This can be seen from the increased number of publications dealing with crystal ~rowth or deformation processes at microscopic scales to which the name of 'nanotectonics' has been applied.

Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks Under the Microscope

Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks Under the Microscope
Title Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks Under the Microscope PDF eBook
Author D. Shelley
Publisher Elsevier
Pages 466
Release 1993
Genre Science
ISBN 0412442000

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This is the first modern text to provide a thorough integrated treatment of those parts of the subject that use the polarizing microscope as the central analytical tool. The book is divided into three parts and a comprehensive glossary/index provides easy access to the contents of the book.

Introduction to Metamorphic Textures and Microstructures

Introduction to Metamorphic Textures and Microstructures
Title Introduction to Metamorphic Textures and Microstructures PDF eBook
Author A. J. Barker
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 268
Release 1998
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780748739851

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An introduction to the thin section description and interpretation of metamorphic rocks, their textures, and microstructures, for advanced undergraduate and graduate geology students. Sections cover some of the broader aspects of metamorphism and metamorphic rocks, the basics of description and interpretation of the textural/microstructural features from the simplest to the more complex, and advanced interpretations in polydeformed and polymetamorphosed rocks. Also available in paper (02414-2), $29.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Introduction to Metamorphic Textures and Microstructures

Introduction to Metamorphic Textures and Microstructures
Title Introduction to Metamorphic Textures and Microstructures PDF eBook
Author A.J. Barker
Publisher Routledge
Pages 289
Release 2013-12-19
Genre Science
ISBN 1317856430

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A text which aims to help undergraduate students in geology to recognize and interpret metamorphic textures and microstructures in thin-section. For lecturers and postgraduates in geology and petrology, the book provides reference for the interpretation of metamorphic rocks.

Metamorphic Textures

Metamorphic Textures
Title Metamorphic Textures PDF eBook
Author Alan Spry
Publisher Elsevier
Pages 391
Release 2013-10-22
Genre Nature
ISBN 1483160289

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Metamorphic Textures provides definitions, descriptions and illustrations of metamorphic textures, as well as the fundamental processes involved in textural development. This book is composed of 11 chapters and begins with a presentation of the metamorphic processes and the production of metamorphic minerals. The subsequent chapters describe the structural classification of grain boundaries, the metamorphic reactions, mineral transformations, and the crystallization and recrystallization of metamorphic rocks. These topics are followed by the texture examination of thermal metamorphic rocks and minerals and the preferred orientations of these rocks, particularly the dimensional and lattice preferred orientation. Other chapters survey the textures of rocks under dynamic and shock metamorphism. The final chapters describe the textures of regional and polymetamorphism. This book will be of great use to petrologists, physicists, and graduate and undergraduate petrology students.

Atlas of Metamorphic Rocks and Their Textures

Atlas of Metamorphic Rocks and Their Textures
Title Atlas of Metamorphic Rocks and Their Textures PDF eBook
Author B. W. D. Yardley
Publisher Longman Scientific and Technical
Pages 132
Release 1990
Genre Nature
ISBN

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Petrology of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks

Petrology of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
Title Petrology of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks PDF eBook
Author Donald W. Hyndman
Publisher McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Pages 776
Release 1985
Genre Nature
ISBN

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