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• Cover
• Series page
• Copyright
• Title page
• Dedication
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• 1: INTRODUCTION AND OCCURRENCE
• 1.1 The Importance of Fieldwork
• 1.2 The Global Picture – Igneous Rocks in Relation to Regional Tectonics
• 1.3 Mode of Occurrence of Igneous Bodies
• 1.4 Summary
• 2: FIELD SKILLS AND OUTCROP STRUCTURES
• 2.1 Equipment
• 2.2 Preparing Maps and Basic Mapping
• 2.3 Notebooks and Data Recording
• 2.4 Primary Outcrop Structures
• 2.5 Secondary or Late Stage Outcrop Structures
• 2.6 Outcrop Contact Relationships
• 2.7 Summary of Igneous Outcrop Descriptions
• 3: IGNEOUS TEXTURES AND CLASSIFICATION
• 3.1 Describing Rock Types
• 3.2 Colour and Composition
• 3.3 Texture, Grain-Size/Shape and Fabric
• 3.4 Mineral Identification
• 3.5 Naming and Classification
• 4: VOLCANICS 1 – LAVA FLOWS
• 4.1 Lava Flow Emplacement Mechanisms
• 4.2 A Compositional Divide for Lava Flows
• 4.3 Mafic/Basaltic Lava Flows
• 4.4 Felsic/Silicic Flows
• 4.5 Pillow Lavas and Hyaloclastites
• 5: VOLCANICS 2 – PYROCLASTIC ROCKS
• 5.1 Structures, Textures and Classification
• 5.2 Pyroclastic Flows and Ignimbrites
• 5.3 Scoria Cones
• 5.4 Water/Magma and Sediment/Magma Interactions
• 5.5 Epiclastic Deposits
• 6: SHALLOW-LEVEL INTRUSIONS
• 6.1 Sill and Dykes
• 6.2 Working Out Emplacement History
• 6.3 Volcanic Plugs and Diatremes
• 6.4 High-Level Subvolcanic Intrusions
• 7: GRANITIC COMPLEXES
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 General Features and Occurrence
• 7.3 Zoned Plutons
• 7.4 Internal Structures and Textures
• 7.5 Internal Contacts
• 7.6 Emplacement Timing
• 7.7 Distinctive Granitoid Textures
• 7.8 Metamorphic Aureoles
• 7.9 Summary of the Field Characteristics of Granitic Complexes
• 8: MAFIC COMPLEXES
• 8.1 General Features and Occurrence
• 8.2 Continental Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusions
• 8.3 Ophiolite Complexes
• 8.5 Summary of the Field Characteristics of Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusions
• 9: MAGMA MIXING AND MINGLING
• 9.1 Magma Rheology
• 9.2 Magma Mixing
• 9.3 Magma Mingling
• 9.4 Synplutonic Dykes and Sills
• 9.5 Magma Mingling in Subvolcanic and Volcanic Environments
• 9.6 Xenoliths
• 9.7 A Word of Warning
• 9.8 Summary
• 10: MINERALISATION AND GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES
• 10.1 Mineralisation and Key Minerals
• 10.2 Mineralisation in Layered Mafic Intrusions
• 10.3 Geotechnical Properties of Igneous Rocks
• 10.4 Rock Mass Classification
• 10.5 Summary
• APPENDIX
• FURTHER READING
• INDEX