The Natural History of Igneous Rocks

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-02813-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science

Alfred Harker (1859-1939) was a prominent petrologist who spent his career at St John's College, Cambridge, lecturing on and researching rock formations and related geological activity. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1902, and was president of the Geological Society from 1916 to 1918. He used his Cambridge lectures as the foundation for this book (first published in 1909), offering an introduction to the development of rocks and related volcanic activity. With more than one hundred diagrams of various aspects of geological formations, this work also provides a visual guide to the location and formation of igneous rocks. Over the course of the work, he covers the themes of vulcanicity, rock structure, crystallization, the role of magma and the principles of rock classification, giving a broad picture of the field of petrology around the beginning of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harker, Alfred

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Petrologie, Mineralogie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Vulkanologie, Seismologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Historische Geologie, Geochronologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Igneous action in relation to geology
2. Vulcanicity
3. Igneous intrusion
4. Petrographical provinces
5. Mutual relations of associated igneous rocks
6. Igneous rocks and their constituents
7. Rock-magmas
8. Crystallization of rock-magmas
9. Supersaturation and deferred crystallization
10. Isomorphism and mixed crystals
11. Structures of igneous rocks
12. Mineralisers and pneumatolysis
13. Magmatic differentiation
14. Hybridism in igneous rocks
15. Classification of igneous rocks
Index.