Petrography; An Introduction to the Study of Rocks in Thin Sections

Howel Williams, Francis Turner, Charles Gilbert

ISBN 10: 0716702061 / ISBN 13: 9780716702061

Verlag: W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, CA, 1954

W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, CA. 1954. Hardcover. 12th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good+; bumped tips; dulling of the shadowbox spine label; foxing to textblock edges. No DJ as issued. Tan cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board in black shadowboxes. Small crystal cross-section on the front board. 406 pp 8vo. This book is concerned more with the description of rocks than with problems of genesis, more with petrography than with the broader field of petrology. Space is devoted to the mode of origin of igneous and metamorphic rocks, and even more is given to discussion of how sedimentary rocks are formed. The pigeon-holing of rock types is avoided as it gives false ideas of exactitude as most rocks are gradational in nature and this the study in detail through thin sections is most helpful in determining rock types. A clean presentable copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005965

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Petrography; An Introduction to the Study of...
Verlag: W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, CA
Erscheinungsdatum: 1954
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
Auflage: 1st Edition