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The Nature and Origin of Granite by Wallace Spencer Pitcher is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Nature and Origin of Granite about?

The origin of granite has for long fascinated geologists though serious debate on the topic may be said to date from a famous meeting of the Geological Society of France in 1847. My own introduction to the subject began exactly one hundred years later when, in an interview with Profes sor H. H. Read, I entered his study as an amateur fossil collector and left it as a committed granite petrologist - after just ten minutes! I can hardly aspire to convert my reader in so dramatic a way, yet this bo

Who reads The Nature and Origin of Granite?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Wallace Spencer Pitcher
Publisher
Chapman & Hall; Springer
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780412758607
Category
science
Subjects
Science, Chemistry, Mathematics
Updated
2026-03-24

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