Introduction to metamorphic textures and microstructures / A. J. Barker.
By: Barker, A. J., Ph. D.
Material type: BookPublisher: Glasgow : Blackie, 1990Description: [184] p.ISBN: 021692684X ; 0216926858; 0412021315 ; 0412021412 .Subject(s): Rocks, Metamorphic -- PeriodicalsDDC classification: 552.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 552.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00021154 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A text which aims to help undergraduate students in geology to recognize and interpret metamorphic textures and microstructures in thin-section. For lecturers and postgraduates in geology and petrology, the book provides reference for the interpretation of metamorphic rocks.
Part A Introduction to metamorphism and metamorphic rocks: Processes and environments of metamorphism - Facies concept and petrogenetic grids -- Compositional groups of metamorphic rocks -- Part B Introduction to metamorphic textures and microstructures: Layering, banding and fabric development -- Crystal morphology, twinning and zoning -- Mineral inclusions, intergrowths and coronas -- Replacement and overgrowth -- Part C Interrelationships between deformation and metamorphism: Deformed rocks and strain-related microstructures -- Porphyroblast - foliation relationships -- Shear-sense indicators -- Veins and fluid inclusions -- Deciphering polydeformed and polymetamorphosed rocks.