Pyrometamorphism (eBook)

Rodney Grapes (Autor)

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2006 | 2006
X, 277 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-29454-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Pyrometamorphism occurs at very high temperatures (800 - > 1000 °C) and low pressures (< 2 kb) and typically results in the formation of 'burnt' and fused rocks termed buchites, paralavas, clinkers and fulgarites. It is typically associated with shallow basaltic intrusions (contact aureoles, xenoliths,) combustion of carbonaceous matter, lightning strikes, and is also found in meteorites. During pyrometamorphism, the sequence of heating and cooling is greatly condensed favouring the preservation of a variety of stranded reaction microstructures that reflect disequilibrium reaction kinetics with metastable and mineral crystallisation.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Acknowledgements 7
Contents 8
1 Introduction 10
2 Thermal Regimes and Effects 19
3 Quartzofeldspathic Rocks 49
4 Calc-Silicates and Evaporates 122
5 Mafic Rocks 174
6 Anthropogenic Pyrometamorphism 198
7 Metastable Mineral Reactions 226
References 260
Index 275

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.6.2006
• Zusatzinfo: X, 277 p. 192 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Disequilibrium mineral reactions • Feldspat • Formation • Intrusion • Lava • Melting • Metamorphism • Mineral • Pyrometamorphism
• ISBN-10: 3-540-29454-6 / 3540294546
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-29454-2 / 9783540294542