An Introduction to the Science of Rocks
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 391 g
ISBN: 978-0-412-21500-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
N this book the task of summarising modern petrology I from the genetic standpoint has been attempted. The scale of the work is small as compared with the magni tude of its subject, but it is nevertheless believed that the field has been reasonably covered. In conformity with the genetic viewpoint petrology, as contrasted with petrography, has been emphasised throughout; and purely descriptive mineralogical and petrographical detail has been omitted. Every petrologist who reads this book will recognise the author's indebtedness to Dr. A. Harker and Dr. A. Holmes, among British workers; to Prof. R. A. Daly, Dr. H. S. Washington, and Dr. N. L. Bowen, among American petrologists; and to Prof. J. H. L. Vogt, Prof. V. M. Goldschmidt, Prof. A. Lacroix, and Prof. P. Niggli. among European investigators. The emphasis laid on modern views, and the relative poverty of references to the works of the older generation of petrologists, does not imply any disrespect of the latter. It is due to recognition of the desirability of affording the petrological student a newer and wider range of reading references than is usually supplied in this class of work; for refer ences tend to become stereotyped as well as text and illustrations. Furthermore it is believed that all that is good and living in the older work has been incorporated, consciously or unconsciously, in the newer.
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I Introduction.- The Science of Petrology.- The Earth Zones.- The Barysphere.- Composition of the Earth Shells.- Chemical Composition of the Crust.- Rocks and their Composition.- The Rock-forming Minerals.- The Classification of Rocks.- I The Igneous Rocks.- II Forms and Structures of Igneous Rocks.- III Composition and Constitution of Magmas.- IV The Formation of Igneous Rocks.- V Textures and Microstructures.- VI Classification of Igneous Rocks.- VII The Distribution of Igneous Rocks in Space and Time.- VIII The Origin of Igneous Rocks.- II The Secondary Rocks.- IX Introduction.- X The Residual Deposits.- XI Sedimentary Rocks: Mineralogical, Textural, and Structural Characters.- XII Sedimentary Rocks. Descriptive.- XIII Deposits of Chemical Origin.- XIV Deposits of Organic Origin.- III The Metamorphic Rocks.- XV Metamorphism.- XVI Metamorphic Minerals, Processes, and Structures.- XVII Cataclastic Metamorphism and Its Products.- XVIII Thermal Metamorphism and Its Products.- XIX Dynamothermal Metamorphism and Its Products.- XX Plutonic Metamorphism and Its Products.- XXI Metasomatism and Additive Processes of Metamorphism.
