[PDF] Petrology Of The Metamorphic Rocks eBook

Author : R. Mason
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 940172590X

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There has been a great advance in the understanding of processes of meta morphism and of metamorphic rocks since the last edition of this book appeared. Methods for determining temperatures and pressures have become almost routine, and there is a wide appreciation that there is not a single temperature and pressure of metamorphism, but that rocks may preserve, in their minerals, chemistry and textures, traces of their history of burial, heating, deformation and permeation by fluids. However, this excit ing new knowledge is still often difficult for non-specialists to understand, and this book, like the first edition, aims at enlightenment. I have concen trated on the interpretation of the plate tectonic settings of metamorphism, rather than following a geochemical approach. Although there is an impress ive degree of agreement between the two, I believe that attempting to discover the tectonic conditions accompanying rock recrystallization will more readily arouse the interest of the beginner. I have used a series of case histories, as in the first edition, drawing on my own direct experience as far as possible. This m

Author : R. H. Vernon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521871786

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This book offers a complete introduction to the study of metamorphic rocks.

Author : Anthony Robert Philpotts
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Igneous rocks
ISBN :

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A laboratory manual for introductory courses in optical mineralogy. The illustrations are bandw, but available in color on a video cassette from the author. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kurt Bucher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662030004

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Metamorphic rocks are one of the three classes of rocks. Seen on a global scale they constitute the dominant material of the Earth. The understanding of the petrogenesis and significance of metamorphic of geological education. rocks is, therefore, a fundamental topic There are, of course, many different possible ways to lecture on this theme. This book addresses rock metamorphism from a relatively pragmatic view point. It has been written for the senior undergrad uate or graduate student who needs practical knowledge of how to interpret various groups of minerals found in metamorphic rocks. The book is also of interest for the non-specialist and non-petrolo gist professional who is interested in learning more about the geolo gical messages that metamorphic mineral assemblages are sending, as well as pressure and temperature conditions of formation. The book is organized into two parts. The first part introduces the different types of metamorphism, defines some names, terms and graphs used to describe metamorphic rocks, and discusses principal aspects of metamorphic processes. Part I introduces the causes of metamorphism on various scales in time and space, and some principles of chemical reactions in rocks that accompany metamorphism, but without treating these principles in detail, and presenting the thermodynamic basis for quantitative analysis of reactions and their equilibria in metamorphism. Part I also presents concepts of metamorphic grade or intensity of metamorphism, such as the metamorphic-facies concept.

Author : B. Ronald Frost
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1108482511

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A concise introduction to the mineralogy and petrology of igneous and metamorphic rocks for all Earth Science students.

Author : Anthony Robert Philpotts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521880068

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A textbook providing a quantitative approach to the petrologic principles of igneous and metamorphic rocks in a new edition.

Author : Kurt Bucher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3031125959

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This new edition of the classic textbook presents a large number of diagrams showing the stability relations among minerals and groups of minerals found in metamorphic rocks. The diagrams help to determine the pressure and temperature conditions under which a given set of metamorphic rocks may have formed. Other parameters that control metamorphic mineral assemblages are also discussed and pitfalls resulting from simplifications and generalizations are highlighted. The book discusses the most common metamorphic rock types, their nomenclature, structure and graphical representation of their mineral assemblages. Part I defines basic principles of metamorphism, introduces metamorphic processes, geologic thermometry and barometry and defines metamorphic grade. Part II presents in a systematic way mineralogical changes and assemblages found in the most common types of metamorphic rocks. The computation of diagrams is based on recent advances in quantitative petrology and geochemistry. An extensive bibliography, including the key contributions and classic papers in the field, make it an invaluable source book for graduate students and professional geologists.

Author : Akiho Miyashiro
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 1994-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781857280371

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A major international text for intermediate and advanced students of metamorphic petrology.

Author : Jacques Kornprobst
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0306480972

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From metamorphism to metamorphosis, there is only a shade of a nuance. Because me- morphic rocks are not only what they are, but also what they were, and they tell of what happened in between. What must be discovered: how to recognize in the butterfly, the caterpillar that was, or in the caterpillar the butterfly that will be? And how to describe the metamorphosis, excuse me, metamorphism which leads from one to the other? It is to this engaging history, this marvelous tale, written progressively over time, which Jacques Kornprobst leads us. If the sedimentary and magmatic rocks have been the object of reflection for a long time, for which a contradiction was established in the century in the confrontation between the Neptunism of Werner for whom everything came from the sea, and the P- tonism of Hutton who derived all rocks from the interior of the earth, the “crystalline schists” as they were called, and as we call them today for simplicity, appear most ambi- ous: they had the crystals of rocks of endogenous origin and appeared to have the strati- cation of exogenous rocks with which one confused the schistosity. These crystalline schists are in some ways the bats of the rock kingdom.