Geology Principles & MethodsJean Dercourt, Jacques Paquet Springer Science & Business Media, 6 déc. 2012 - 384 pages This book by Jean Dercourt and Jacques Paquet is over, no sooner have the past ideas been finally an excellent introduction to the Earth Sciences. It is assimilated than new perspectives open up which addressed, however, not simply to those who follow encompass both the Earth and the other planets in these particular disciplines but, equally, to all those the Solar System. The scientific study of the Earth, who are interested in the Natural Sciences in the and now the planets as well, has therefore become widest sense. an intellectual necessity. Who, indeed, could not look beyond the mere Clear, precise and up to date, this book provides appearance of the world as it exists today when its the necessary basis for this task. If, within these geological framework, at first sight static, has been pages, readers do not find answers to all their shown to be alive? What conclusions can be drawn questions, they will obtain, at the very least, a way without recalling that the landscapes so familiar to to formulate them. Once the question can be us are no more than a fleeting episode in an properly framed, the answer is never far away. unfolding story of great complexity but precise This work by Dercourt and Paquet provides an meaning? Who could leave aside the search for this excellent introduction both to the Earth Sciences meaning? and to the Natural Sciences, and an excellent The Earth Sciences have made a major contribu opportunity for intellectual development. |
Table des matières
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Evolution of Minerals Experimental Results | 21 |
Outline Classification of Igneous Rocks | 32 |
Exercises | 39 |
Granites and Associated Rocks | 63 |
tures | 77 |
Metamorphic Rocks | 81 |
Structure of the Earths Interior | 101 |
The Marine Environment | 171 |
Sedimentary Facies | 194 |
The Measurement of Geological Time | 207 |
Ancient Sedimentary Environments | 229 |
The FrancoItalian Alps and Canadian Cordillera | 254 |
Applied Geology | 309 |
Solutions to Exercises | 353 |
Selected Bibliography 367 | 366 |
The Continents and Oceans | 120 |
Continental Drift and SeaFloor Spreading | 135 |
Continental Erosion | 156 |
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alkaline Alpine amphibolite ancient andesites anomalies aquifer argillaceous argillites associated basalts basement basin beds Briançonnais Briançonnais zone CaCO3 calcareous carbonate chalk chemical clay composition containing continental cover craton Cretaceous crust crystalline crystals Dauphiné Dauphiné zone deformation deposits depth derive detrital diagenesis diagram diorites Earth elements environment Eocene erosion facies fault feldspar flysch fold formation formed fossils fractures Franco-Italian Alps gabbros geological glauconite gneiss granite granitoids Helminthoid flysch internal zones ions Jurassic lavas layers limestones liquid lithosphere lustrous schists magma marine marls mass massif material melt metamorphic rocks million years ago minerals Miocene mixture mountain nappe occur oceanic olivine ophiolitic outcrops Palaeozoic particles peridotites phase Piedmont zone plagioclases plane plutonic pressure pyrolite pyroxene quartz reef ridge sands sandstones schists sea-floor sedimentary rocks sedimentation shales siliceous SiO2 stratigraphic structure surface tectonic temperature Tertiary thickness tholeiitic tion Triassic Upper volcanic waves