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Petrology of the Metamorphic Rocks | 
| Manufacturer: Springer
Category: EBooks
List Price: $51.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 94127
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
ASIN: B000PC6C2S
Publication Date: December 31, 1899
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the Second Edition of a popular textbook on metamorphic rocks October 5, 2008
From back cover:
"This new edition of a popular textbook presents recent revolutionary developments in the understanding of metamorphism. Intended for first- and second-year undergraduate students in Earth sciences who have passed the introductory level, 'Petrology of the Metamorphic rocks, 2nd Edition' updates all the available methods for determining metamorphic temperatures and pressures and describes their variation and deformation through time in a plate-tectonic context.
As in the first edition, metamorphic rocks are viewed in thin sections through the petrological microscope; many line drawings include examples from continents and oceans, from extensional and collisional plate boundaries, from the Earth's mantle to outer space. Dr. Mason discusses thermodynamic and analytical methods from first principles, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, the aim being to introduce interpretive techniques and their applications to the rocks themselves, rather than give a detailed explosion of one particular approach. As a wide-ranging introduction to metamorphism, this book not only caters to the needs of undergraduates but should also appeal to professional geologists and geology teachers."
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