Publisher's Synopsis
The study of rocks in thin section using a petrographic microscope is an important part of any undergraduate course in geology. This book has been designed to be a handbook for students for use in practical classes to enable him or her to become familiar with the more common mineral associations and textures to be found in metamorphic rocks.;The book has been divided into two parts. Part one consists of descriptions of photographs of thin sections of a wide range of rocks of different chemistries metamorphosed under a variety of physical conditions. Part two deals with the textures characteristic of metamorphic rocks. It is beyond the scope of this atlas to try to interpret the origins of rocks or to try to interpret the significance of their occurrence or their texture, but in the matter of arrangement both of rock types and their textures the authors have tried to make some assumptions about their origins.
