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Author Augustithis, Stylianos-Savvas

Title Atlas of the Textural Patterns of Basic and Ultrabasic Rocks and their Genetic Significance
Published Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 1979

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Contents Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. Olivine Mastoids in olivinefels with nematoblastic (velonblastic) tremolite. (Olivine megablasts along shearing planes of olivinefels); Chapter 2. Metasomatic transformations of marbles. (Olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, mica and plagioclase blastesis); Chapter 3. Metasomatic serpentine in marbles; Chapter 4. Basic and ultrabasic rocks related with granite and as inclusions in the granite (e.g. example provided by considering the Seriphos granite and skarns); Chapter 5. Eclogites and eclogites
Chapter 6. Blastic magnetite with ilmenite ex-solutions in epizonal chlorite with anthophyllite blastic growthsChapter 7. Mafic crystalloblast; Chapter 8. Gabbroic rocks -- Essexites; Chapter 9. Norites -- Troctolites -- Shonkinites -- Theralites -- Jacubirangites; Chapter 10. Peridotites; Chapter 11. Lamprophyres; Chapter 12. Feldspathisation (Anorthositisation); Chapter 13. Kimberlites; Chapter 14. Layered basic and ultrabasic complexes; Chapter 15. Volcanic or subvolcanic hypothesis of the basic and ultrabasic intrusive plutonics
Chapter 16. Metamorphic-metasomatic hypothesis (Metasomatic and blastogenic textural patterns in layered ultramafic plutonics)Chapter 17. Is the Bushveld complex igneous?; Chapter 18. Banded dunites with bands of chromite; Chapter 19. The ultrabasic archean greenstone peridotitic volcanic flows and the significance of spinifex textures; Chapter 20. Intrusive ring complexes; Chapter 21. Tectonic deformation textures in basic and ultrabasic rocks; Chapter 22. The mineralogy, geochemistry, ore-microscopy of ore minerals and bodies associated with basic and ultrabasic bodies
Chapter 23. Chromite ores in ultrabasics (The Controversy of the Genesis of Chromite-Ores in Dunites)Chapter 24. The distribution of Pt-group elements and the Pt-group minerals in the basic and ultrabasic rocks; Chapter 25. The mineralogical and geochemical distribution of sulphides in basic and ultrabasic bodies; Chapter 26. The significance of magnetite and magnetite with titaniferous ""ex-solution"" in basic and ultrabasic rocks; Chapter 27. On the alteration and weathering of basic and ultrabasic rocks; Chapter 28. Textures of olivine serpentinisation
Chapter 29. The reaction chromite-serpentineChapter 30. Differential leaching of elements from ultrabasic rocks and birbiritisation of dunites; Chapter 31. Low-temperature mobilisation of the Pt-group elements in lateritic covers (Synoptical discussion); Chapter 32. Alteration of dunite, magnesite formation; Chapter 33. Lateritisation processes of serpentine and altered dunitic rocks; Chapter 34. Metasomatic alterations of ultrabasics (e.g. Rodingites); Illustrations; Fig. 1-Fig. 258; Fig. 259-Fig. 515; Fig. 516-Fig. 733b; References; Author Index; Subject Index to the Text Part
Notes Subject Index to the Illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ultrabasic rocks.
Igneous rocks.
Petrofabric analysis.
igneous rock.
SCIENCE.
Earth Sciences.
Geophysics.
Physics.
Igneous rocks
Petrofabric analysis
Ultrabasic rocks
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ISBN 9783110867466
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