Atlas of the Textural Patterns of Basic and Ultrabasic Rocks and their Genetic Significance / / Stylianos-Savvas Augustithis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Reference Works <1990
• VerfasserIn: Augustithis, Stylianos-Savvas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Reprint 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

Table of Contents

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