Petrologic studies a volume in honor of A.F. Buddington. /

Main Author: Geological Society of America.
Other Authors: Engel, A. E. J. 1916-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: [New York?], [publisher not identified], 1962.
Physical Description: xi, 660 pages : illustrations, portrait, maps (part. folded, 1 color) diagrams, tables. ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • An appreciation, by H.H. Hess.
  • Iron-magnesium ratio in associated pyroxenes and olivines, by P. Bartholmé.
  • Pyroxenes and garnets from charnockites and associated granulites, by A.P. Subramaniam.
  • Progressive metamorphism and amphibolite, northwest Adirondack Mountains, New York,
  • by A.E.J. Engel and C.G. Engel.
  • Carbonatite problem in the Bearpaw Mountains, Montana, by W.T. Pecora.
  • Isotopic composition and concentration of lead in some carbonate rocks, by J.M. Wampler and J.L. Kulp.
  • Lead-isotope studies in the northern Rockies, U.S.A., by R.S. Cannon, Jr., and others.
  • Tectonic-igneous sequence in Costa Rica, by G. Dengo.
  • Petrology of the Allard Lake anorthosite suite, Quebec, by R.B. Hargraves.
  • Origin and diagenetic alteration of the lower part of the John Day Formation near Mitchell, Oregon, by R.L. Hay.
  • Oxygen isotope fractionation in metamorphosed iron formations of the Lake Superior region and in other iron-rich rocks, by H.L. James and R.N. Clayton.
  • Lead-isotope and potassium-argon studies in the East Kootenay district of British Columbia, by G.B. Leech and R.K. Wanless.
  • Origin of slaty and fracture cleavage in the Delaware Water Gap area, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, by J.C. Maxwell.
  • Faults and folds across Cordilleran trends at the headwaters of Leduc River, northern British Columbia, by G.W.H. Norman.
  • Diatremes and uranium deposits in the Hopi Buttes, Arizona, by E.M. Shoemaker, C.H. Roach, and F.M. Byers, Jr.
  • Calderas and associated volcanic rocks near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, by H.R. Cornwall.
  • Hypogene zoning and ore genesis, Central City districts, Colorado, by P.K. Sims and P.B. Barton, Jr.
  • Sulphur Bank, California, a major hot-spring quicksilver deposit, by D.E. White and C.E. Roberson.
  • Effect of ionic substitution on the unit-cell dimensions of synthetic diopside, by L.C. Coleman.
  • Model for the evolution of the earth's atmosphere, by H.D. Holland.
  • Laramide comagmatic series in the Colorado Front Range: the feldspars, by G. Phair and F.G. Fisher.
  • Members of the ludwigite-vonsenite series and their distinction from ilvaite, by B.F. Leonard, F.A. Hildebrand, and A.C. Vlisidis.
  • Stratigraphic interpretation of age measurements in Southern Africa, by L.O. Nicolaysen.
  • History of ocean basins, by H.H. Hess.