A practical guide to rock microstructure
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780521814430 9780521891332 9781139076821 9780511807206 |
| Physical Description | 1 online zdroj (xii, 594 p.) : ill. (some col.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Background : History of the examination of rocks with the microscope ; How relevant is the microscope today? ; Mineral identification ; The concept of a section ; Newer techniques ; Quantitative approaches ; Some terms ; Traditional rock groupings ; Importance of evidence ; Kinds of evidence used ; Complexity
- Microstructures of sedimentary rocks : Epiclastic ('terrigenous') sedimentary rocks ; Pyroclastic sedimentary rocks ; Organic and bioclastic sedimentary rocks ; Chemical sedimentary rocks
- -Microstructures of igneous rocks : Structure of silicate melts and glasses ; Crystallization (freezing) of magma: nucleation and growth ; Grainsize in igneous ; Grain shapes in igneous rocks ; Order of crystallization in igneous rocks ; Distribution of minerals in igneous rocks ; Mineral intergrowths in igneous rocks ; Magmatic flow ; Enclaves in igneous rocks ; Compositional zoning in igneous minerals ; Growth twinning in crystals in igneous rocks ; Embayments ; Microstructures formed by boiling (vesiculation) ; of magma ; Liquid unmixing in magma
- -Microstructures of metamorphic rocks : Processes controlling grain shapes in metamorphic rocks ; Grainsize and porphyroblasts ; Effect of fluids on crystal faces in metamorphic rocks ; Elongate and dendritic crystals in metamorphic rocks ; Solid-state effects in slowly cooled igneous rocks ; Growth twinning in metamorphic minerals ; Transformation twinning ; Exsolution ; Symplectic intergrowths ; Modification of deformation twins, exsolution lamellae and other intergrowths ; Compositional zoning in metamorphic minerals ; Criteria for inferring metamorphic reactions ; Distribution of minerals in metamorphic rocks ; Residual microstructures in metamorphic rocks ; Microstructures formed by melting of solid rocks
- -Microstructures of deformed rocks : Experimental evidence ; Deformation mechanisms ; Recovery and recrystallization ; Deformation of polymineral aggregates ; Metamorphic reactions during deformation ; Deformation partitioning ; Foliations and lineations ; Fluid and mass transfer in deforming rocks ; Porphyroblast-matrix microstructural relationships during deformation ; Deformation in partly melted rocks ; Deformation in earth's mantle
- Glossary of microstructural and related terms.