Rocks And Rock Minerals A Manual Of The Elements Of Petrology Without The Use Of The Microscope For The Geologist Engineer Miner Architect Etc And For Instruction In Colleges And Schools

Author : Louis V. Pirsson
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ISBN 13 : 9781332338467
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Rocks and Rock Minerals written by Louis V. Pirsson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rocks and Rock Minerals: A Manual of the Elements of Petrology Without the Use of the Microscope, for the Geologist, Engineer, Miner, Architect, Etc;, And for Instruction in Colleges and Schools During the last fifteen years it has been one of the writers duties to teach the elements of Petrology to students in various branches of Engineering, Mining, Chemistry, Forestry, etc. The amount of time which these students, in their undergraduate course, can devote to the subject is limited and precludes any attempt to give them such instruction in optical-microscopical methods of research as would be worth while. The subject has to be treated from the purely megascopic standpoint, as indeed the vast majority of those who have to deal with rocks in a practical or technical way are also obliged to consider them. In giving this instruction the author has long felt the need of a small, concise and practical treatise in which the rocks and rock-minerals are handled entirely from this megascopic standpoint. In such works as exist either the subject matter has not been brought down to date to express our present knowledge of rocks, or it is treated largely from the microscopical or chemical standpoint, or the classifications used are based on microscopical research and are thus not available for ordinary use, or the rocks are treated incidentally with respect to some other main purpose as in works on soils, ore deposits, etc. The present work is an attempt to fill this need which the writer believes is also felt in many other institutions in which similar courses in Petrology are given. In addition to this purpose its scope has also been somewhat enlarged to meet the wants of many who have to consider rocks from the scientific or practical point of view and who are not in a position to use the microscopical method. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.