Igneous Rocks and Processes
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Igneous Rocks and Processes

A Practical Guide

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eBook - ePub

Igneous Rocks and Processes

A Practical Guide

About this book

This book is for geoscience students taking introductory or intermediate-level courses in igneous petrology, to help develop key skills (and confidence) in identifying igneous minerals, interpreting and allocating appropriate names to unknown rocks presented to them. The book thus serves, uniquely, both as a conventional course text and as a practical laboratory manual.

Following an introduction reviewing igneous nomenclature, each chapter addresses a specific compositional category of magmatic rocks, covering definition, mineralogy, eruption/ emplacement processes, textures and crystallization processes, geotectonic distribution, geochemistry, and aspects of magma genesis. One chapter is devoted to phase equilibrium experiments and magma evolution; another introduces pyroclastic volcanology. Each chapter concludes with exercises, with the answers being provided at the end of the book.

Appendices provide a summary of techniques and optical data for microscope mineral identification, an introduction to petrographic calculations, a glossary of petrological terms, and a list of symbols and units. The book is richly illustrated with line drawings, monochrome pictures and colour plates.

Additional resources for this book can be found at: http://www.wiley.com/go/gill/igneous.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chapter 1: An introduction to magmas and magmatic rocks
  8. Chapter 2: Basalts and related rocks
  9. Chapter 3: Magma differentiation
  10. Chapter 4: Gabbroic rocks
  11. Chapter 5: Ultramafic and ultrabasic rocks
  12. Chapter 6: Andesite, dacite and rhyolite
  13. Chapter 7: How magmas erupt – an introduction to pyroclastic processes and products
  14. Chapter 8: Granitic rocks
  15. Chapter 9: Alkali rocks
  16. Appendix A – Mineral identifi cation using a polarizing microscope
  17. Appendix B – Petrographic calculations
  18. Appendix C – Symbols, units and constants used in this book
  19. Glossary
  20. Answers to exercises
  21. Bibliography
  22. Colour plate
  23. Companion website for this book: wiley.com/go/gill/igneous
  24. Index