Rocks and Their Origins
by Grenville A. J. Cole
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cole, Grenville A. J. (Grenville Arthur James), 1859-1924
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press,1912.
- Credits
- Charlene Taylor, Tom Cosmas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QE: Science: Geology
- Subject
- Rocks
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 67685
- Release Date
- March 22, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Untitled
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.CHAPTER I ON ROCKS IN GENERAL — LIST OF THE COMMON MINERALS THAT FORM ROCKS
- 7.CHAPTER II THE LIMESTONES — INTRODUCTION — LIMESTONES DEPOSITED FROM SOLUTION — LIMESTONES FORMED OF ORGANIC REMAINS — ALTERED FORMS OF MASSIVE LIMESTONE — LIMESTONE AND SCENERY — ON MARBLES
- 8.CHAPTER III THE SANDSTONES — THE ORIGIN OF SANDS — THE CEMENTING OF SANDS — THE SAND-GRAINS OF SANDSTONE — SOME CHARACTERS OF SANDSTONE — SILICEOUS CONGLOMERATES — SANDSTONE AND THE LAND-SURFACE
- 9.CHAPTER IV CLAYS, SHALES, AND SLATES — CHARACTERS OF CLAY AND SHALE — ORIGIN OF CLAYS — SLATE — ARGILLACEOUS ROCKS IN THE FIELD — ON BOULDER-CLAY
- 10.CHAPTER V IGNEOUS ROCKS — INTRODUCTION [58] — CHARACTERS OF IGNEOUS ROCKS — THE INTRUSION OF LARGE BODIES OF IGNEOUS ROCK — THE RANGE OF COMPOSITION IN IGNEOUS ROCKS — THE SCENERY OF IGNEOUS ROCKS
- 11.CHAPTER VI METAMORPHIC ROCKS — INTRODUCTION [92] — MICA AND HORNBLENDE SCHISTS — AMPHIBOLITES — METAMORPHIC MARBLES AND QUARTZITES — GNEISSES — THE QUESTION OF A FUNDAMENTAL GNEISS — METAMORPHIC ROCKS AND SCENERY
- 12.REFERENCES — TABLE OF STRATIGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS
- 13.INDEX
- 14.Untitled
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