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Atlas of minerals and igneous and metamorphic rocks in thin-section / Alessandro Da Mommio, Victoria Pease.

Cambridge eBooks: Frontlist 2025 Available online

Cambridge eBooks: Frontlist 2025
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Da Mommio, Alessandro, author.
Pease, Victoria, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Thin sections (Geology).
Rocks--Identification.
Rock-forming minerals--Identification.
Mineralogy, Determinative.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 399 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Rock-forming minerals
Igneous rocks
Metamorphic rocks -their textures and fabrics.
Notes:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2025).
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-009-11832-3
1-009-11002-0
OCLC:
1519594757

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