Rock & Minerals

A textbook covering the essentials of crystallography, mineralogy, and the igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks for first year undergraduates. It is also suitable for A-level students.

First year undergraduates, students on foundation courses, A-level students.

Contents

1 The Structure of Matter

2 Crystallography

3 The Classification of Crystals

4 The Physical Properties of Minerals

5 The Rocks

6 Structure and Texture in Igneous Rocks

7 The Field Occurrence of Igneous Rocks

8 The Classification of the Igneous Rocks

9 The Rock Clans. The Granite Clan

10 The Syenite Clan

11 The Diorite Clan

12 The Gabbro Clan

13 The Ultrabasic Clan

14 Weathering

15 The Sedimentary Rocks

16 Structures in Sedimentary Rocks

17 The Clastic Sedimentary Rocks

18 The Calcareous Rocks

19 The Chemically Formed Sediments

20 The Carbonaceous Deposits

21 Pyroclastic Rocks

22 Metamorphism

Appendix Physical Properties of Selected Materials

Further Reading List

Index