Potassic Igneous Rocks and Associated Gold-Copper Mineralization (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences)
Edition: 3rd updated a. enlarged ed. edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9783540663713
Subjects: Igneous rocks; Mineralogy; Science; Igneous Petrology; Geochemistry; Nature; Rocks, Igneous; Science/Mathematics; Rocks & Minerals; Earth Sciences - Geology; Earth Sciences - Mineralogy; Science / Mineralogy; Copper ores; Gold ores
First sentence: Potassic igneous rocks occur in many different tectonic settings (e.g. Rock 1991; Foley and Peccerillo 1992), and include a variety of compositions ranging from shoshonites associated with calc-alkaline volcanic rocks to ultrapotassic leucitites (Foley and Peccerillo 1992; Peccerillo 1992).