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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. Under the auspices of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), a group of petrologists from around the world has laboured for more than 30 years to collate these terms, gain international agreement on their usage, and reassess the methods by which we categorize and name igneous rocks.This book presents the results of their work and gives a complete classification of igneous rocks based on all the recommendations of the IUGS Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks. Revised from the 1st edition (1989), it shows how igneous rocks can be distinguished in the sequence of pyroclastic rocks, carbonatites, melilite-bearing rocks, kalsilite-bearing rocks, kimberlites, lamproites, leucite-bearing rocks, lamprophyres and charnockites. It also demonstrates how the more common plutonic and volcanic rocks that remain can then be categorized using the familiar and widely accepted modalQAPF and chemical TAS classification systems. The glossary of igneous terms has b

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Author

R.W. Le Maitre (editor) ... [et al.]

Publisher

CUB (Cambridge University Press)

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511169748

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Science, Mathematics