The Geology and Mapping of Granite Batholiths

• Main Author: Cobbing, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 96
• Subjects: Mineralogy.; Geology.; Geophysics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

This book is a practical guide for field geologists. Consequently it deals mainly with the physical attributes of granites as encountered in the field. However, granites have always been a focus for controversy, the nature of which has changed as the science has evolved, but which has been essential...

Table of Contents:

• Systems of Classification
• Granite Geology
• Characteristics of Granite Typologies
• Field Mapping
• Handling the Data
• Integrating the Data
• The Granite Controversy and its Aftermath
• Epilogue.