The igneous rocks; The secondary rocks; The metamorphic rocks.

A textbook providing a quantitative approach to the petrologic principles of igneous and metamorphic rocks in a new edition.

This undergraduate textbook on the key subject of geology closely follows the core curriculum adopted by most universities throughout the world and is a must fo

This book offers a complete introduction to the study of metamorphic rocks.

Igneous petrology was to some extent essentially a descriptive sci ence until about 1960. The results were mainly obtained from field work, major element analys