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Vernon, R. H., (Ronald Holden)
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A practical guide to rock microstructure /\ Ron H. Vernon
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xii, 594 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 26 cm
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052181443X
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: 9780521814430
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: 0521891337
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: 9780521891332
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-578) and index
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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
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"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
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Rocks-- Analysis
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Metamorphism (Geology)
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Analyse chimique
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Microstructure (Physique)
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Métamorphisme
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Roche
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552/.06
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QE434.V37 2004
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Rock microstructure
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