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