CLASSIC GEOLOGY!!
This is USGS Professional Paper 366,
Ash-Flow Tuffs: Their Origin, Geologic Relations, and Identification
. Published in 1961, this 81-page book is the one book that took the varied ideas about volcanic rocks and distilled them in to a clearer picture.
Until this book, the nature of huge ash-flow tuffs, and their origins was not clear, mainly because the giant eruptions of the geologic past that produced huge packages of tuffs simply had not been observed in the relatively few years that geology existed as a science. Basically, geologists had no idea of the scale of certain kinds of volcanic events, or of the processes of welding, compaction, and crystallization that go with them. This book brought together many observations, helped clarify terminology, and explained many of the processes
involved
in these huge rock-forming events.
The book is great because one of the first sections involves the vocabulary associated with these rocks, so the reader is not left wondering what terms mean. In addition, the many photographs (nearly 100 figures are provided) have clear explanations of the features
within
the rocks. I've been a geologist for years, but when I finally got ahold of this I finally felt like I understood these complex rocks and could see them in the field with some
understanding
of them. It's a great book
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An encyclopedic listing of every known mineral species until 2004, with paragraph
size discussions for each mineral, emphasizing formation conditions of
the minerals and major worldwide localities.
Including supplement of new minerals 2004-2013.
Item Weight
:
5.76 pounds
Hardcover
:
807 pages
ISBN-10
:
8072960547
ISBN-13
:
978-8072960545
Publisher
:
Granit Publishing; 2nd edition (January 1, 2006)
Language:
:
English
Supplement has 100 pages.
Of special interest is the
feature that a great many of the rare species are illustrated, which are
normally not thought of as photogenic and are therefore not illustrated
in other mineralogical books. The book contains information about
minerals from 8,500 of the world's localities. A special effort of the
authors was to list the most recently discovered or productive
localities, together with well known classical localities, and to
emphasize their mineral assemblages and their geological environments.
There is an information on 4,340 valid mineral species, including their
chemical formulas, accompanied by a coding according to Strunz
chemical-structural classification system. The descriptive information
includes: appearance and size of crystal or aggregates, as well as the
other principle physical properties, or those which we believe are most
likely to be useful for mineral determination. The text is accompanied
by 1,050 color photographs of typical specimens of a standard available
to current mineral collectors, although a few superior specimens are
illustrated. Also mentioned are the great mineral localities with the
highest numbers of type minerals and with impressive numbers of all
found mineral species. The text is supplemented by a list of mineral
localities, with minerals found on each locality; in digital form is the
list available separately from the publisher. This book is designed to
meet the needs of all mineralogists, professional and amateur, including
mineral collectors, museum curators, and mineral dealers: in short, to
all mineral lovers.
Will ship worldwide, shipping is air mail to the USA. Another destinations ask (Europe = lower).
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- Condition: Light corner bumping and minor writing and marks on the front. Minor wear to the bottom of the spine with a bit of wear-through. Back cover has some smudges on it. Light tanning of the spine. No internal marks. A good example of this book.
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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