Stable Mineral Assemblages of Igneous Rocks A Method of Calculation

Rittmann, A. & V. Gottini & W. Hewers & H. Pichler & R. Stengelin

ISBN 10: 3540060308 / ISBN 13: 9783540060307

Published by Springer, New York, 1973

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Unmarked, except for previous owner's name on inside cov er page. Mild wear on some corners. ; Book Description; Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds. Covers are square with minor wear. Ships Safe and Fast. Published without Dust Jacket. ; Minerals, Rocks and Mountains; Textbook; B&W Illustrations; 0 X 0 X 0 inches; 264 pages DB1.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stable Mineral Assemblages of Igneous Rocks A Method of Calculation
• Publisher: Springer, New York
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540060308
• ISBN 13: 9783540060307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition (?).
• Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

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Synopsis

This book represents the results of a lengthy study which Professor ALFRED RITTMANN began some thirty years ago. The relationship between the chemical and mineralogical composition of igneous rocks is established as far as is possible. Petrographers will appreciate that this problem is extremely complex, particularly since this relationship forms the basis of the classification and nomenclature of igneous rocks. The ingenious scheme of calculation of the CI.P.W. norm system is essentially chemical in nature. The compositions of the stoichiometrically ideal "normative minerals" do not correspond to those of the constituent minerals found in rocks. Although the "norm" is not intended to equal the "mode" or actual mineral composition of a rock, at least a qualitative agreement between the norm and the mode is desirable. For a number of rocks and rock groups, especially the leucocratic and silicic rocks, the deviation of the norm from the mode is generally within tolerable limits. For the melanocratic and highly subsilicic rocks, on the other hand, the CI.P. W. scheme of calculation too often yields results which fail to reflect the observed mineral composition. The anomalies produced in the cal­ culation of extremely subsilicic volcanic rocks have recently been briefly discussed by F. CHAVES and H. S. YODER, JR. (1971).