W S Pitcher

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The Nature and Origin of Granite (1997. Softcover Reprint of the Original 2nd 1997)Paperback - 1997. Softcover Reprint of the Original 2nd 1997, 9 October 2012

The Nature and Origin of Granite (1997. Softcover Reprint of the Original 2nd 1997)
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Print Length
387 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
9 Oct 2012
ISBN-10
9401064644
ISBN-13
9789401064644

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The origin of granite has for long fascinated geologists though serious debate on the topic may be said to date from a famous meeting of the Geological Society of France in 1847. My own introduction to the subject began exactly one hundred years later when, in an interview with Profes- sor H. H. Read, I entered his study as an amateur fossil collector and left it as a committed granite petrologist - after just ten minutes! I can hardly aspire to convert my reader in so dramatic a way, yet this book is an attempt, however inadequate, to pass on the enthusiasm that I inherited, and which has been reinforced by innumerable discussions on the outcrop with granitologists of many nationalities and of many shades of opinion. Since the 1960s, interest in granites has been greatly stimulated by the thesis that granites image their source rocks in the inaccessible deep crust, and that their diversity is the result of varying global tectonic context. So great a body of new data and new ideas has accumulated that my attempt to review the whole field of granite studies must carry with it a possible charge of arrogance, especially as I have adopted the teaching device of presenting the material from a personal point of view with its thinly disguised prejudices.

Product Details

Author:
W S Pitcher
Book Edition:
1997. Softcover Reprint of the Original 2nd 1997
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
9 October 2012
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 2.13 cm
ISBN-10:
9401064644
ISBN-13:
9789401064644
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
387
Publisher:
Weight:
566.99 gm

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