Rocks
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 2011
296 pages
978-1-61530-541-4 (ISBN)
Description
Often concealing millennia worth of Earth's history, rocks seem to project an impression of durability and permanence that belies their transformation over time. Seen in all shapes and sizes and found in many of the planet's ecosystems, rocks have been subject to various natural forces that have affected such attributes as their elasticity, strength, and ductility (that is, their ability to be fashioned into a new form). The general properties as well as the three major categories of rock-igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic-are all examined in depth in this penetrating volume.
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- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 A WORLD OF ROCK
- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
- TEXTURE
- CLASSIFICATION BY GRAIN OR CRYSTAL SIZE
- POROSITY
- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- DENSITY
- MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
- THERMAL PROPERTIES
- ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES
- MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
- CHAPTER 2 IGNEOUS ROCK
- COMPOSITION
- CHEMICAL COMPONENTS
- MINERALOGICAL COMPONENTS
- TEXTURAL FEATURES
- CRYSTALLINITY
- GRANULARITY
- STRUCTURAL FEATURES
- SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURAL FEATURES
- LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURAL FEATURES
- CLASSIFICATION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS
- CLASSIFICATION OF PLUTONIC ROCKS
- CLASSIFICATION OF VOLCANIC AND HYPABYSSAL ROCKS
- ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION
- ORIGIN OF MAGMAS
- NATURE OF MAGMAS
- CRYSTALLIZATION FROM MAGMAS
- VOLATILE CONSTITUENTS AND LATE MAGMATIC PROCESSES
- FORMS OF OCCURENCE
- EXTRUSIVE IGNEOUS ROCKS
- INTRUSIVE IGNEOUS ROCKS
- DISTRIBUTION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS ON EARTH'S SURFACE
- CHAPTER 3 SEDIMENTARY ROCK
- CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS
- TERRIGENOUS CLASTIC ROCKS
- CARBONATE ROCKS: LIMESTONES AND DOLOMITES
- NONCARBONATE CHEMICAL SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
- TEXTURE
- GRAIN SIZE
- PARTICLE SHAPE
- FABRIC
- MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION
- SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES
- EXTERNAL STRATIFICATION
- BEDDING TYPES AND BEDDING-PLANE FEATURES
- DEFORMATION STRUCTURES
- SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS
- SEDIMENTARY ROCK TYPES
- CONGLOMERATES AND BRECCIAS
- SANDSTONES
- MUDROCKS
- LIMESTONES AND DOLOMITES
- SILICEOUS ROCKS
- PHOSPHORITES
- EVAPORITES
- IRON-RICH SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
- ORGANIC-RICH SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS
- SECULAR TRENDS IN THE SEDIMENTARY ROCK RECORD
- CHAPTER 4 METAMORPHIC ROCK
- METAMORPHIC VARIABLES
- TEMPERATURE
- PRESSURE
- ROCK COMPOSITION
- METAMORPHIC REACTIONS
- REACTIONS IN A KAOLINITE-QUARTZ SYSTEM
- REACTIONS OF OTHER MINERAL SYSTEMS
- ISOGRADS
- PRINCIPAL TYPES
- RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM
- TEXTURAL FEATURES
- MAJOR FEATURES
- LAMINATION
- STRUCTURAL FEATURES
- METAMORPHIC FACIES
- FACIES SERIES
- PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME PATHS
- ORIGIN OF METAMORPHIC ROCKS: TYPES OF METAMORPHISM
- HYDROTHERMAL METAMORPHISM
- DYNAMIC METAMORPHISM
- CONTACT METAMORPHISM
- REGIONAL METAMORPHISM
- DISTRIBUTION OF METAMORPHIC ROCKS
- CLASSIFICATION OF METAMORPHIC ROCKS
- SCHIST
- SLATE
- GNEISSES
- HORNFELS
- MARBLE
- MYLONITES AND CATACLASTITES
- OTHER CLASSES
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX: GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ROCKS
- IGNEOUS ROCKS
- SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
- METAMORPHIC ROCKS
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
