Manual of Petrographic Methods

Manual of Petrographic Methods
Author: Albert Johannsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 706
Release: 1914
Genre: Optical mineralogy
ISBN:

The desire of an increasing number of students for more complete information in regard to modern petrographic-microscopic methods than is to be found in any English work on the subject,has led excellent elementary and intermediate text-books on optical minerralogy,and certain portions of most crystallographies and mineralogies,are devoted to microcopic methods.

Quaternary Sediments

Quaternary Sediments
Author: Stephen J. Gale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781932846256

This title considers how the information preserved in sediments, soils and weathering products may be used to reconstruct past environments. It describes and assesses physical and chemical laboratory procedures and shows how to interpret the results of these analyses. The application of each procedure to environmental reconstruction is stressed.