Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks

New York, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1974. We have only this one copy, but it is available now and ready to ship today. Very Good condition. Flat, uncreased spine. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1974. First printing of the Third Edition, "Completely Revised and Up-To-Date Version." Bound in the original brick red wraps, lettered in white and black. From the Preface: "The first edition of this book was published in 1965 and its French translation in 1966. The revised second edition followed in 1967 and its Russian translation became available in 1969. Since then, many new petrographic observations and experimental data elucidating reactions in metamorphic rocks have made a new approach in the study of metamorphic transformation desirable and possible. It is felt that this new approach, attempted in this book, leads to a better understanding of rock metamorphism. The concept of metamorphic facies and subfacies considers associations of mineral assemblages from diverse bulk compositions as characteristic of a certain pressure-temperature range. As new petrographic observations accumulated, it became increasingly difficult to accommodate this information within a manageable framework of metamorphic facies and subfacies. Instead, it turned out that mineral assemblages due to reactions in common rocks of a particular composition provide suitable indicators of metamorphic conditions. Metamorphic zones, defined on the basis of mineral reactions, very effectively display the evolution of metamorphic rocks. Thus the importance of reactions in metamorphic rocks is emphasized. Experimental calibration of mineral reactions makes it possible to distinguish reactions which are of petrogenetic significance from those which are not. This distinction provides guidance in petrographic investigations undertaken with the object of deducing the physical conditions of metamorphism.". Third Edition, Revised and Updated. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xi, 320pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.