Rocks and Rock Formations (eBook)

A Key to Identification

Jurg Meyer (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21755-0 (ISBN)

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The first field guide that allows amateur rock enthusiasts to identify basic rocks and rock formations in a systematic wayMany of us are fascinated by rocks-but identifying them can seem daunting. It's often tricky even for geologists, who rely on experience, intuition, and in-depth familiarity with rock-forming components. Rocks and Rock Formations allows everyone, amateur or professional, to successfully distinguish these amazing masses of minerals, using only careful observation, a magnifying glass, a pocket knife-and a bit of patience.Jurg Meyer provides a structured approach to the identification of all rocks within the three groups: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. Bringing together more than 530 diagrams and photographs to illustrate essential characteristics, Meyer highlights some basics on rocks-their mineral constituents, structures, textures, fossils, weathering patterns, and more-which are important for a determination. The main part of the book is a handy and thorough identification key, which takes into account all possible rock variations, mixtures, and structural differences. The concluding section of the guide delves into rock systematics.Assuming little prior experience or knowledge, Rocks and Rock Formations is an invaluable resource for rock enthusiasts everywhere.Suitable for beginners and amateursHelpful, systematic identification keyExploration of all types of rocksMore than 530 diagrams and photographs

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Field Guides
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Field Guides
• Übersetzer: Mark Epstein
• Zusatzinfo: 534 color photos.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Schlagworte: Alkali feldspar • Alkali feldspar granite • Amphibolite • Andesite • Anhydrite • Aplite • Argillite • Banded iron formation • Basalt • bedrock • Bentonite • Biotite • Breccia • brucite • Calcite • Carbonate rock • charnockite • Chris Pellant • Chromite • Clastic rock • Conchoidal fracture • Conglomerate (geology) • Crust (geology) • depositional environment • Dike (geology) • earth • earth science • Eclogite • epidote • Erosion • Extrusive rock • Fault (geology) • feldspar • ferrous • Fissility (geology) • Foliation (geology) • Formation of rocks • gabbro • geologist • Geologist's hammer • Geology • Gneiss • Grain size • Granite • Hardness • Heavy mineral • Helen Pellant • Hematite • hornblende • igneous rock • Iron ore • Kaolinite • Lamprophyre • Lichen • limestone • Lustre (mineralogy) • Magma Chamber • Magmatic rocks • Metamorphic Facies • Metamorphic reaction • metamorphic rock • Metamorphic zone • Metamorphism • Mineral • Mineralization (geology) • Mineralogy • minerals • Mountain formation • Mudrock • Mylonite • Nodule (geology) • olivine • Ophiolite • ore • Orthoclase • outcrop • pegmatite • Peridotite • phyllite • Pillow lava • Plagioclase • plutonic rocks • plutonites • Porosity • Potassium feldspar • Protolith • pyroxene • Quartz • Radiolarite • Rhyolite • rock collection • rock collectors • rock determination • Rock (geology) • rock identification • rocks and minerals • sandstone • schist • Sediment • sedimentary rock • Sedimentation • Serpentinite • shale • Shear zone • silicate • silicate minerals • Source rock • spherulite • staurolite • Stones • Subvolcanic rock • tephra • Tuff • Ultramafic rock • volcanic glass • volcanic rock • Volcanic Rocks • weathering
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21755-6 / 0691217556
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21755-0 / 9780691217550