Research Catalog

Title

A practical guide to rock microstructure / Ron H. Vernon.

Author

Vernon, R. H. (Ronald Holden)

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge, c2004.

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Description

xii, 594 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Senior undergraduate and graduate students of mineralogy, petrology and structural geology will find this book essential reading, and it will also be of interest to students of materials science."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Rock microstructure

Subject

• Metamorphism (Geology)
• Rocks > Analysis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-578) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 052181443X
• 0521891337 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003069081

OCLC

53896770

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library