Description
Book SynopsisIGNEOUS ROCKS AND PROCESSES A practical introduction to igneous petrology for students and practitioners
The newly revised Second Edition of Igneous Rocks and Processes: A Practical Guide, delivers an authoritative introduction to igneous petrology and helps students to develop key skills and confidence in identifying igneous materials and in naming and interpreting unknown igneous rocks presented to them. It serves as both a conventional course text and a practical laboratory manual.
The authors review igneous nomenclature and subsequently describe specific compositional categories of magmatic rocks. Each chapter covers definitions, mineralogy, eruption and emplacement processes, textures and crystallization processes, geotectonic distribution, geochemistry, and aspects of magma genesis. Additional chapters address phase equilibrium experiments and physical volcanology.
This latest edition offers readers extensively updated chapters, as well as acces
Table of Contents
Preface to the second Edition
Preface to the first Edition
Acknowledgements
About the companion website
Chapter 1 An introduction to magmas and magmatic rocks
Chapter 2 Basalts and related rocks
Chapter 3 Magma differentiation
Chapter 4 Gabbroic rocks
Chapter 5 Ultramafic rocks
Chapter 6 Andesite, dacite and rhyolite
Chapter 7 How magmas erupt an introduction to pyroclastic processes and products
Chapter 8 Granitic rocks
Chapter 9 Alkali rocks
Appendix A Mineral identification using a polarizing microscope
Appendix B - Petrographic calculations
Appendix C - Symbols, units and constants used in this book
Glossary
Answers to exercises
Bibliography
Index
Colour plate section between pp. X and X
