Igneous Rocks
Subtitle: A CLASSIFICATION AND GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781280417672; 9780511060205; 9780511068645
Description: Decades of field and microscope studies, and more recent quantitative geochemical analyses have resulted in a vast, and sometimes overwhelming, array of nomenclature and terminology associated with igneous rocks. This book presents a complete classification of igneous rocks based on all the recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks. The glossary of igneous terms has been fully updated since the first edition and now includes 1633 entries, of which 312 are recommended by the Subcommission.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Albert Streckeisen; Foreword to 1st edition; Chairman's Preface; Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Classification and nomenclature; 3 Glossary of terms; 4 Bibliography of terms; Appendix A Lists of participants; Appendix B Recommended IUGS names; Appendix C IUGSTAS software package.