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Atlas of Micromorphology of Mineral Alteration and Weathering

De Jean E. Delvigne
IRD Éditions/Mineralogical association of Canada
Collection : Atlas et cartes
décembre 1998
Livre papier
format 215 x 300 496 pages En stock
102,10 €

Présentation

 

Atlas of micromorphology of mineral alteration and weathering illustrates lavishly all the steps of weathering from incipient replacement along cracks to complete replacement by secondary minerals. Each of the 610 color photomicrographs from the author’s extensive collection is accompanied by a detailed caption.

In his book, the author, Jean Delvigne, patiently distills the work of a lifetime and successfully bridges the gap between petrological sciences and the soil sciences, with mineralogy as a common thread. He examines the transition between parent rocks and weathered materials that are concealed, and commonly left unsampled, at the base of the soil profile. He deals with problems of classification, description and origin of altered rocks and indurated materials derived from them, and proposes the vocabulary needed to communicate findings in the field. He provides new insight into the diverse paths that high-temperature rocks take to adjust to their new surroundings near the Earth’surface. In general, weathering reactions are superimposed upon patterns of hypogene alteration.  

Here is a textbook and reference manual for a broad spectrum of scientists interested in the weathering and alteration of minerals. This field of study is relevant to soil scientists, agronomists, environmental mineralogists and economic geologists.

Caractéristiques

Editeur : IRD Éditions/Mineralogical association of Canada

Auteur(s) : Jean E. Delvigne

Collection : Atlas et cartes

Publication : 1 décembre 1998

Edition : 1ère édition

Intérieur : Couleur

Support(s) : Livre papier

Poids (en grammes) : 1700

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre papier : 9782709914208

Sommaire

Part 1: Général concepts

  1. Weathering and alterites
  2. Sampling
  3. The systems of pore-space

Part 2: Patterns of weathering

  1. Micromorphological descriptions
  2. Partly weathered minerals

Part 3: alteromorphs

  1. Definitions
  2. Preservation of shapes and volumes 
  3. The content of alteromorphs
  4. Triteria for a genetic classification
  5. Alteromorphs and processes of accumulation
  6. "Poro"-alteromorphs and further evolution

Part 4: lithorelics, alterorelics, nodules, pisoliths

  1. Definitions
  2. Composition, origin and morphology
  3. Evolution
  4. Bridged nodulesand development of iron crust
  5. Pisoliths in bauxite
  6. Secondary oxides and hydroxides

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