Richly illustrated in colour and featuring end-of-chapter and online exercises, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to metamorphic rocks and processes for undergraduate students of petrology ...

Petrology is the study of the macroscopic and microscopic mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks. In addition to assessing sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks that are accessible ...

You have reached the home page for the Year 3 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology course offered at Brock University. These web pages, like all others, are constantly ...

On September 17 at 4 p.m., a fleet of new, highly sophisticated instrumentation, used for the study of pegmatite samples for Lithium, Boron, and other critical minerals, will be brought online at the ...

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The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and ...

Introduction to Optical Mineralogy, third of fourth edition, by William D. Neese. This text is available in the bookstore and will be used in this course and all petrology courses offered at Brock. It ...

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Most geodes in the area contain quartz, with a form called chalcedony forming the exterior, but calcite, kaolinite, dolomite, ...

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Turner, F. J., and Verhoogen, J., Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, second ed. (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960).

Cumulate rocks are typically named according to the cumulate minerals in order of abundance, and then cumulate type (adcumulate, mesocumulate, orthocumulate), and then accessory or minor phases. For ...