Igneous And Metamorphic Rocks Under The Microscope, Classification, Textures, Microstructures And Mineral Preferred Orientation Book

	Preface
Pt. 1	Classification, Terminology and Description	1
	Introduction to the scope and organization of this book	3
1	Igneous rocks - an introduction	4
1.1	Introduction	4
1.2	Pyroclastic rocks	9
1.3	Carbonatites	13
1.4	Lamprophyre, lamproite and kimberlite	16
1.5	Ultramatic melilitic rocks	19
1.6	Charnockitic rocks	20
1.7	Plutonic rocks	24
1.8	Volcanic rocks	39
2	Metamorphic rocks - an introduction	58
2.2	Describing and naming metamorphic rocks	61
2.3	Hydrothermally and/or incipiently metamorphosed rocks	63
2.4	Dynamically metamorphosed rocks [mylonite, cataclasite, phyllonite]	70
2.5	Well-crystallized or recrystallized rocks	77
2.6	Metasomatic rocks	110
Pt. 2	Textures and Microscopic Structures	113
3	Crystals and crystallization	115
3.2	Crystal nucleation, diffusion and growth	116
3.3	Twinning	120
3.4	Zoning	126
3.5	Intergrowths and textures where mineral grains are set within each other	136
4	Igneous crystallization, textures and microstructures	170
4.1	Volcanic rocks	171
4.2	Plutonic rocks	211
5	Metamorphic crystallization, recrystallization, textures and microstructures	245
5.1	Metamorphic crystallization	246
5.2	Recrystallization (sensu stricto)	266
5.3	Metamorphic layering, crenulation cleavage, veins and pressure shadows	275
5.4	Shear-sense indicators	296
5.5	Metamorphic histories	301
Pt. 3	Mineral Preferred-Orientations	315
6	Introduction	317
6.1	Shape preferred-orientations (SPOs) and lattice preferred-orientations (LPOs)	317
6.2	Oriented specimens	317
6.3	Measuring preferred orientations	319
7	Metamorphic rocks	329
7.1	Mechanisms	329
7.2	Sheet-silicates	337
7.3	Quartz	343
7.4	Calcite and dolomite	351
7.5	Plagioclase	356
7.6	Olivine	362
7.7	Amphiboles	366
8	Igneous rocks	370
8.1	Mechanisms	370
	References	382
Pt. 4	Glossary and index	407