Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-Section

von Victoria Pease, Alessandro Da Mommio

411 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-Section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and metamorphic rocks in thin-section. It showcases minerals in various settings and degrees of alteration and preservation to allow users to best identify their own specimens in practice. Chapter 1 highlights the distinctive characteristics used to identify different minerals. Building on this base, following chapters describe rock textures and types, summarizing their petrogenesis within a plate tectonic framework. This book also includes insights into how additional information from petrographic thin-sections can be obtained using modern analytical methods to increase our understanding of geological processes. The Atlas is an indispensable reference textbook for all facilities that use a petrographic microscope, for professional geoscientists, and as an aid for any student studying minerals and rocks.

• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Geowissenschaften Geologie und die Lithosphäre Petrologie (Gesteinskunde), Petrografie und Mineralogie
• ISBN: 9781009112055
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.05.2025
• Größe: 273 x 214 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press