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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162967803321

Autore

Augustithis S. S.

Titolo

Atlas of the textural patterns of basic and ultrabasic rocks and their genetic significance / / S. S. Augustithis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : W. de Gruyter, , 1979

ISBN

3-11-086746-X

Edizione

[Reprint 2015]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

552/.1

Soggetti

Ultrabasic rocks

Igneous rocks

Petrofabric analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- 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 growths -- Chapter 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-serpentine -- Chapter 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 -- Subject Index to the Illustrations