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Pyrometamorphism Second Edition 2010 Edition
Author(s): Rodney Grapes (Author)
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: November 13, 2014
- Edition: Second Edition 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 3642436919
- ISBN-13: 9783642436918
Book Description
1000 °C) and low pressures (<2 kb) and typically results in the formation of “burnt” and fused rocks termed buchites, paralavas, clinkers and fulgarites. It is typically associated with shallow basaltic intrusions (contact aureoles, xenoliths,) combustion of carbonaceous matter, lightning strikes, and is also found in meteorites. During pyrometamorphism, the sequence of heating and cooling is greatly condensed favouring the preservation of a variety of stranded reaction microstructures that reflect disequilibrium reaction kinetics with metastable and mineral crystallisation. This second edition includes the latest developments in the study of pyrometamorphism derived from over 60 new references and accompanied with over 20 new illustrations.
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1000 °C) and low pressures (<2 kb) and typically results in the formation of “burnt” and fused rocks termed buchites, paralavas, clinkers and fulgarites. It is typically associated with shallow basaltic intrusions (contact aureoles, xenoliths,) combustion of carbonaceous matter, lightning strikes, and is also found in meteorites. During pyrometamorphism, the sequence of heating and cooling is greatly condensed favouring the preservation of a variety of stranded reaction microstructures that reflect disequilibrium reaction kinetics with metastable and mineral crystallisation. This second edition includes the latest developments in the study of pyrometamorphism derived from over 60 new references and accompanied with over 20 new illustrations.
