Petrology, petrography and mineralogy

Based on hundreds of thin sections from granite in China, this book introduces metasomatic textures and their formation mechanism in granite.

La presente obra aborda uno de los procesos más intrigantes de la geología: el metamorfismo; el cual ha sido ampliamente difundido a través de la historia geológica de la Tierra y gran actor en su constitución.

This volume focuses on research and practical issues linked to Calcined Clays for Sustainable Concrete.

This edited work contains the most recent advances related to the study of layered intrusions and cumulate rocks formation.

Crystals are everywhere, from natural crystals (minerals) through the semiconductors and magnetic materials in electronic devices and computers or piezoelectric resonators at the heart of our quartz watches to electro-optical devices.

Since the 1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, the looming prospect of Earth's changing climate has inspired a broad movement dedicated to a sustainable future.

This book addresses most of the environmental impacts of sand mining from small rivers The problems and solutions addressed in this book are applicable to all rivers that drain through densely populated tropical coasts undergoing rapid economic growth.

There has been a great advance in the understanding of processes of meta- morphism and of metamorphic rocks since the last edition of this book appeared.

Acknowledgements xix pioneering workers on igneous layering in Greenland xx Wbrkshop participants xxii Henning Sfl!

The main aim of this paper is to present some new and general results, ap- plicable to the the equations of two phase flow, as formulated in geothermal reservoir engineering.

Hydrogeology of Crystalline Rocks deals with deep groundwater in the granite and gneiss basement of the continents.

viii debate of those earlier days has been beautifully summarized by H.

In his foreword to Structural Mineralogy.

Natural and Laboratory-Simulated Thermal Geochemical Processes compares a series of thermal natural geochemical events with thermally laboratory-simulated processes.

This is the first book in English reviewing and updating the geology of the whole Apennines, one of the recent most uplifted mountains in the world.

This book is the proceedings of the 11th Kongsberg seminar, held at the Norwegian Mining Museum in the city of Kongsberg, about 70 km Southwest of Oslo.

Since 1980, progress in research on the fission-track dating method and its applications to earth and related sciences has been evaluated during an International Workshop that takes place every four years.

2Gpa has increased to more than 15.

600 km giving insight into the 3D structure of the upper mantle.

This volume follows a Specialized Symposium on "e;Mantle denudation in slow spreading ridges and in ophiolites"e;, held at the XII EUG Meeting in Strasbourg, spring 1993.

Although Rock Mechanics addresses many of the rock mechanics issues which arise in underground mining engineering, it is not a text exclusively for mining applications.

Marble in Ancient Greece and Rome: Geology, Quarries, Commerce, Artifacts Marble remains the sine qua non raw material of the an- cient Greeks and Romans.

The feldspars form the most abundant group of minerals in the crust of the Earth and Moon and also occur in many meteo- rites.

This second volume in the new series produced by the Mineralogical Society is concerned with the study of rocks from the deep continental crust.

Interest in the study of early European cultures is growing.

In the 75 years of the existence of this book the content and boundaries of sedimentary petrology have increased enormously.

The last thorough revision of Rutley's Elements of Mineralogy appeared as the 23rd Edition in 1936.

Microscopy is a servant of all the sciences, and the microscopic examina- tion of minerals is an important technique which should be mastered by all students of geology early in their careers.

Rutley's elements of mineralogy has been around for a long time, certainly throughout my own lifetime; and if my great grandfather had read geology, it would have been prescribed reading for him too!

This monograph has its origins in a two-day meeting with the same title held in London, England in the spring of 1987.

The origin of granite has for long fascinated geologists though serious debate on the topic may be said to date from a famous meeting of the Geological Society of France in 1847.

This book is written as a practical field manual to effective.

The Thirteenth International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia from June 2 -6, 1997.

This is the first book to deal specifically with the procedures used in the analysis of structural relationships and the determination of structural successions in complexly deformed rocks such as migmatites and gneisses.

The workshop "e;From Dust to Terrestrial Planets"e; was initiated by a working group of planetary scientists invited to ISSI by Johannes Geiss in November 1997.

Partial melting occurs in a variety of geological environments, from granitic partial melts in the continental crust, to basaltic or carbonate partial melts in the upper mantle.

Basalt is the most voluminous of all the igneous rocks.

Introduction to Clay Minerals is designed to give a detailed, concise and clear introduction to clay mineralogy.

Although some handbooks on the microscopic identi- In Part I the concept of heavy mineral analysis is fication of heavy mineral grains are available, a introduced and the relative significance of factors comprehensive manual illustrated in colour has not affecting heavy mineral assemblages is discussed.

The selected spectra presented in this volume are a testimony to the diversity of mineral carbonates.

Modern approaches to the theoretical computation and experimental determination of NMR shielding tensors are described in twenty-nine papers based on lectures presented at the NATO ARW.

The 8th International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held in Butte, Montana, August 8-12,1988.

This volume illustrates some of the significant aspects of magmatic activity from Devonian (408 million years ago) to early Permian (270 million years ago) times in SW England.