R. H. Vernon, G. L. Clarke

Principles of Metamorphic Petrology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a complete introduction to the study of metamorphic rocks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1088g
• ISBN-13: 9780521871785
• ISBN-10: 0521871786
• Artikelnr.: 23550032

Autorenporträt

Ron Vernon is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Macquarie University and an honorary Research Professor at the University of Southern California. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses and short courses in Australia, the US, Italy, Germany, Finland and México, and authored several books, including two others with Cambridge University Press: Beneath Our Feet (2000) and A Practical Guide to Rock Microstructure (2004). He was an editor of the Journal of Metamorphic Geology for 18 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Metamorphic processes
2. Metamorphic conditions - thermobarometry and chemography
3. Tectonothermal history of metamorphic terranes
4. Partial melting during high-grade metamorphism
5. Fluids and metasomatism
6. Tectonic structures of metamorphic rocks
7. Parent rocks
References
Index.