http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps.
1. Introduction and occurrence -- Importance of fieldwork -- The global picture : igneous rocks in relation to regional tectonics -- Mode of occurrence of igneous bodies -- 2. Field skills and outcrop structures -- Equipment -- Preparing maps and basic mapping -- Notebooks and data recording -- Primary outcrop structures -- Secondary or late stage outcrop structures -- Outcrop contact relationships -- 3. Describing rock types -- Colour and composition -- Texture, grain-size/shape and fabric -- Mineral identification -- Naming and classification -- 4. Volcanics 1 : lava flows -- Lava flow emplacement mechanisms -- Compositional divide for lava flows -- Mafic / basaltic lava flows -- Felsic / silicic flows -- Pillow lavas and hyaloclastites -- 5. Volcanics 2 : pyroclastic rocks -- Structures, textures and classification -- Pyroclastic flows and ignimbrites -- Scoria cones -- Water / magma and sediment / magma interactions -- Epiclastic deposits -- 6. Shallow-level intrusions -- Sill and dykes -- Working out emplacement history -- Volcanic plugs and diatremes -- Shallow-level subvolcanic intrusions -- 7. Granitic complexes -- General features and occurrence -- Zoned plutons -- Internal structures and textures -- Internal contacts -- Emplacement timing -- Distinctive granitoid textures -- Metamorphic aureoles -- Summary of the field characteristics of granitic complexes -- 8. Mafic complexes -- General features and occurrence -- Continental mafic-ultramafic intrusions -- Ophiolite complexes -- Komatiites -- Summary of the field characteristics of mafic-ultramafic intrusions -- 9. Magma mixing and mingling -- Magma rheology -- Magma mixing -- Magma mingling -- Synplutonic dykes and sills --Magma mingling in subvolcanic and volcanic environments -- Xenoliths -- 10. Mineralisation and geotechnical properties -- Mineralisation and key minerals -- Mineralisation in layered mafic intrusions -- Geotechnical properties of igneous rocks -- Rock mass classification.
Revised edition of: The field description of igneous rocks / R.S. Thorpe and G.C. Brown. Milton. Keynes [Buckinghamshire] : Open University Press ; New York : Halsted, 1985.
Includes bibliographical references (page 231) and index.
Milton Keynes [Buckinghamshire] : Open University Press ; New York : Halsted, 1985