Download or read book Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin Section written by Alessandro Da Mommio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and metamorphic rocks in thin-section. It showcases minerals in various settings and degrees of alteration and preservation to allow users to best identify their own specimens in practice. Chapters highlight the distinctive characteristics used to identify different minerals. Building on this base, following chapters describe rock textures and types, summarising their petrogenesis within a plate tectonic framework. This book also includes insights into how information from photomicrographs can be studied using modern analytical methods, increasing understanding of geological processes. This Atlas is an indispensable reference textbook for all facilities that use a petrographic microscope, for professional geoscientists, and as an aid for any student studying minerals and rocks.
Download or read book A Colour Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section written by W. S. MacKenzie and published by Manson Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise volume is designed for the introductory undergraduate level. With the help of colour photographs, the authors explain how to observe, describe and identify thin section samples of rocks and minerals using the polarizing microscope.
Download or read book Atlas of the Rock Forming Minerals in Thin Section written by W.S. Mackenzie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hurray for Mackenzie and Guilford for at last we have a pictorial guide to the rock-forming minerals! . . . such feasts of colour in mineralogy books are rare . . . an admirable guide' New Scientist
Download or read book Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section written by W.S. MacKenzie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, clear and handy–sized volume, aimed at the undergraduate level, provides an introduction to the observation, description and identifi cation in thin section, using the polarizing microscope, of samples of the commonlyoccurring rocks and minerals. Illustrated with a wealth of full colour thin section photomicrographs, and with the original images enhanced by new examples and a revised text, the book explains how to observe mineral and rock samples under the microscope. The book highlights the important diagnostic features of minerals and deals with all rock types – igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic – each with equal emphasis and authority, giving students the knowledge and confi dence to begin to identify specimens for themselves. While intended for students in geology, geography, civil engineering and materials science, the book stands on its own as a beautiful collection of photomicrographs and a permanent source of reference and fascination for all those interested in the nature and science of the world of rocks and minerals.
Download or read book Atlas of Igneous Rocks and Their Textures written by W. S. MacKenzie and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 1982 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to the "Atlas of rock-forming minerals in thin section", this full-colour handbook is designed to be used as a laboratory manual both by elementary students of earth sciences undertaking a study of igneous rocks in thin section under the microscope, and by more advanced students and teachers as a reference work. The book is divided into two parts - Part one is devoted to photographs of many of the common textures found in igneous rocks with brief descriptions accompanying each photograph. Part two illustrates the appearance of examples of some sixty of the commonest (and a few not so common) igneous rock types; each photograph is accompanied by a brief description of the field of view shown. Nearly 300 full-colour photographs are included, and in many cases the same view is shown both in plen-polarized light and under crossed polars. A brief account of how thin sections can be prepared is included as an appendix.
Download or read book A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section written by W. S. MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 1994-03-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the use of thin sections in the study of petrography--the scientific description of rocks. It covers all rock types--igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic--and provides readers with an excellent overview of the subject.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Atlas of Metamorphic Rocks and Their Textures written by B. W. D. Yardley and published by Longman Scientific and Technical. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Key for Identification of Rock Forming Minerals in Thin Section written by Andrew J. Barker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured in the form of a dichotomous key, comparable to those widely used in botany, the mineral key provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying rock-forming minerals in thin-section. This unique approach covers 150 plus of the most commonly encountered rock-forming minerals, plus a few rarer but noteworthy ones. Illustrated in
Download or read book Atlas of Rock forming Minerals in Thin Section written by William Scott MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlas of Sedimentary Rocks Under the Microscope written by A. E. Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1984 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book A Key for Identification of Rock Forming Minerals in Thin Section written by Andrew J. Barker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured in the form of a dichotomous key, comparable to those widely used in botany, the mineral key provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying rock-forming minerals in thin-section. This unique approach covers 150+ of the most commonly encountered rock-forming minerals, plus a few rarer but noteworthy ones. Illustrated in full colour, with 330+ high quality mineral photomicrographs from a worldwide collection of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, it also provides a comprehensive atlas of rock-forming minerals in thin-section. Commencing with a brief introduction to mineral systems, and the properties of minerals in plane-polarised and cross-polarised light, the mineral key also includes line drawings, tables of mineral properties and an interference colour chart, to further aid mineral identification. To minimise the chance of misidentification, and enable less experienced petrologists to use the key with confidence, the key has been arranged to prioritise those properties that are most easily recognised. Designed for simplicity and ease of use, it is primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of mineralogy and petrology, but should also provide a valuable source of reference for all practising geologists dealing with rock thinsections and their interpretation.
Download or read book Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section written by W. S. MacKenzie and published by Elsevier España. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the use of thin sections in the study of petrography--the scientific description of rocks. It covers all rock types--igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic--and provides readers with an excellent overview of the subject.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Essentials of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology written by B. Ronald Frost and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to the mineralogy and petrology of igneous and metamorphic rocks for all Earth Science students.
Download or read book Microtextures of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks written by J.P. Bard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Atlas of Micromorphology of Mineral Alteration and Weathering written by Jean E. Delvigne and published by Mineralogical Association of Canada = Association minéralogique du Canada. This book was released on 1998 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General concepts; Weathering and alterites; Sampling; The systems of pore-space; Patterns of weathering; Micromorphological descriptions; Partly weathered minerals; Alteromorphs; Definitions; Preservation of shapes and volumes; The content of alteromorphs; Criteria for a genetic classification; Alteromorphs and processes of accumulation; Poro - alteromorphs and further evolution; Lithorelics, alterorelics, nodules, pisoliths; Composition, origin and morphology; Evolution; Bridged nodules and development of iron crust; Pisoliths in bauxite; Secondary oxides and hydroxides.
Download or read book Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section with Student Survey Set written by W. S. MacKenzie and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2004-12-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the use of thin sections in the study of petrography the scientific description of rocks. It covers all" rock types igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic and provides readers with an excellent overview of the subject.
Download or read book Petrography of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks written by Anthony Robert Philpotts and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
