The Natural History of Igneous Rocks
Alfred Harker (1859-1939) was a prominent petrologist who spent his career at St John's College, Cambridge, lecturing on and researching rock formations and related geological activity. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1902, and was president of the Geological Society from 1916 to 1918. He used his Cambridge lectures as the foundation for this book (first published in 1909), offering an introduction to the development of rocks and related volcanic activity. With more than one hun…
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- Full title :The Natural History of Igneous Rocks / Alfred Harker.
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Alfred Harker (1859-1939) was a prominent petrologist who spent his career at St John's College, Cambridge, lecturing on and researching rock formations and related geological activity. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1902, and was president of the Geological Society from 1916 to 1918. He used his Cambridge lectures as the foundation for this book (first published in 1909), offering an introduction to the development of rocks and related volcanic activity. With more than one hundred diagrams of various aspects of geological formations, this work also provides a visual guide to the location and formation of igneous rocks. Over the course of the work, he covers the themes of vulcanicity, rock structure, crystallization, the role of magma and the principles of rock classification, giving a broad picture of the field of petrology around the beginning of the twentieth century.
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- Publication Date:2011.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
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- Description:1 online resource (408 pages)
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- ISBN:9780511920424, 0511920423, 9781108028134, 1108028136
- oclc:ocn864194496
- LC Classification:QE461
- Dewey Decimal:552.1
Table of Contents
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- Contents -- LIST OF DIAGRAMS -- LIST OF PLATES -- CHAPTER I -- IGNEOUS ACTION IN RELATION TO GEOLOGY -- CHAPTER II -- VULCANICITY -- CHAPTER III -- IGNEOUS INTRUSION -- CHAPTER IV -- PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCES -- CHAPTER V -- MUTUAL RELATIONS OF ASSOCIATED IGNEOUS ROCKS -- CHAPTER VI -- IGNEOUS ROCKS AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS -- CHAPTER VII -- ROCK-MAGMAS -- CHAPTER VIII -- CRYSTALLIZATION OF ROCK-MAGMAS -- CHAPTER IX -- SUPERSATURATION AND DEFERRED CRYSTALLIZATION -- CHAPTER X -- ISOMORPHISM AND MIXED CRYSTALS -- CHAPTER XI -- STRUCTURES OF IGNEOUS ROCKS -- CHAPTER XII -- MINERALISERS AND PNEUMATOLYSIS -- CHAPTER XIII -- MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION -- CHAPTER XIV -- HYBRIDISM IN IGNEOUS ROCKS -- CHAPTER XV -- CLASSIFICATION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS -- INDEX -- Plate section.
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