Preface; 1. Metamorphic processes; 2. Metamorphic conditions - thermobarometry and chemography; 3. Tectonothermal history of metamorphic terranes; 4. Partial melting during high-grade metamorphism; 5. Fluids and metasomatism; 6. Tectonic structures of metamorphic rocks; 7. Parent rocks; References; Index.
This book offers a complete introduction to the study of metamorphic rocks.
Ron Vernon is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Macquarie University and an honorary Research Professor at the University of Southern California. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses and short courses in Australia, the US, Italy, Germany, Finland and México, and authored several books, including two others with Cambridge University Press: Beneath Our Feet (2000) and A Practical Guide to Rock Microstructure (2004). He was an editor of the Journal of Metamorphic Geology for 18 years. Geoffrey clarke is a Professor of Geology and the current Head of the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney, where he has taught geology for over 15 years. Before teaching, he spent three years as a minerals exploration geologist for Esso Exploration and Production. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Metamorphic Geology and an editor for the Journal of Petrology.
'The book Principles of Metamorphic Petrology is an absolutely
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style. … Useful glossary, a voluminous bibliography (from Abbott to
Zwart) running to almost 70 pages and an index … This book will be
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geochronologists.' Journal of the Geological Society of India
'… a good book and is recommended as an advanced textbook of
metamorphic petrology …' Mineralogical Magazine
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American Geophysical Union
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