Ron H Vernon

A Practical Guide to Rock Microstructure

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A richly illustrated survey of rock microstructures in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, from basic concepts to cutting-edge research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 221mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1451g
• ISBN-13: 9781108427241
• ISBN-10: 1108427243
• Artikelnr.: 51385953

Autorenporträt

Ron H. Vernon is an Emeritus Professor of Geology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has taught petrology to undergraduates for over forty years and has conducted workshops on rock microstructure for undergraduate and graduate students across the world. He is also the author of Metamorphic Processes (1976), Beneath Our Feet (Cambridge, 2000) and Principles of Metamorphic Petrology (Cambridge, 2008, co-authored with Geoff Clarke).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Background
2. Microstructures of sedimentary rocks
3. Microstructures of igneous rocks
4. Microstructures of metamorphic rocks
5. Microstructures of deformed rocks
Glossary of microstructural and related terms
References
Index.