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The study of rocks in thin section
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1959
Author
Moorhouse, W. W.
Publisher
New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
Call Number
03 M78t
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Author
Moorhouse, W. W.
Publisher
New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
Published Date
1959
Physical Description
514 pages : illustrations, 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Harper's geoscience series
Subjects
Petrology
Geology
Science
mineralogy
Contents
1. Introduction. -- 2. Methods of optical mineralogy -- 3. Description of minerals -- 4. Mineral identification tables -- 5. Petrography of igneous rocks and related rocks -- 6. Volcanic and hypabyssal rocks : basalts, diabases, and related rocks -- 7. Andesites, dacites, and related rocks -- 8. quartz latites (rhyodacites) and rhyolites -- 9. Latites, trachytes, phonolites, and leucite trachytes -- 10. tuffs and pyroclastics -- 11. The plutonic rocks : gabbro, norite, and related rocks -- 12. The alkali gabbos : essexite, theralite, and related rocks -- 13. Quartz diorite, granodiorite, granite, and related rocks -- 14. Diorites, monzonites, syenites, and related rocks -- 15. Nepheline syenites and other delfspathoidal rocks -- 16. Ultrabasic rocks : peridotite, pyrozenite, and hornblendite -- 17. Lamprophyres -- 18. Sedimentary rocks in thin section -- 19. Conglomerates and breccias -- 20. Sandstones and arkoses -- 21. Greywackes -- 22. Argillaceous rocks -- 23. Limestones and dolomites -- 24. Cherts, iron formations, glauconitic sediments, phosphatic sediments, saline rocks, and coals -- 25. Metamorphic rocks -- 26. Dynamic metamorphism -- 27. Thermal metamorphism -- 28. Regional metamorphism -- 29. Metasomatism -- 30. Petrography of ore
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
9780060446109
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 M78t
Collection
Archives Library
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