A petrographic atlas of ophiolite an example from the eastern India-Asia collision zone /
The book is a thoughtful discussion with scientists studying convergent plate boundaries such as the well-known, active India-Eurasia collision zone. It provides a comprehensive collection of petrographic images of ophiolitic rocks exhumed from oceanic lithosphere and mantle at the India-Asia plate...
| Main Author: | Ghose, N. C., |
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| Other Authors: | Chatterjee, Nilanjan (Geochemist), Fareeduddin,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Delhi :
Springer,
2014.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Part I.
- Description of Ophiolite Suites and the Naga Hills Ophiolite
- Introduction
- Ophiolite Around the Indian Plate Margin
- Geology of the Naga Hills Ophiolite
- Structure and Tectonics of the Naga Hills
- Petrography
- Petrogenesis
- Part II.
- Photomicrographs and Backscattered Electron Images
- Peridotite Tectonite
- Spinel Peridotite
- Pyroxenite
- Serpentinite
- Rodingite
- Chromitite
- Peridotite Cumulate
- Gabbro
- Plagiogranite
- Anorthosite
- Dolerite
- Mafic Volcanics
- Basaltic Hyaloclastite
- Volcaniclastics
- Very-Low Grade Metamorphics
- Greenschist
- Glaucophane Schist
- Eclogite
- Oceanic Sediments
- Cover Sediments (Jopi Formation)
- Late Tertiary Granites
- Metamorphics of the Nimi Formation.