Pyrometamorphism (eBook)

Preface 5
Acknowledgements 7
Contents 8
Introduction 11
1.1 Rock Terms 12
1.2 Sanidinite Facies 15
Thermal Regimes and Effects 20
2.1 Igneous Pyrometamorphism 20
2.2 Combustion Pyrometamorphism 30
2.3 Lightning Pyrometamorphism 39
2.4 Other Thermal Effects 43
Quartzofeldspathic Rocks 54
3.1 Experimental Data and Petrogenetic Grid 58
3.2 Contact Aureoles and Xenoliths 64
Calc-Silicates and Evaporates 149
4.1 Calc-Silicates 149
4.2 Evaporites 204
Mafic Rocks 206
5.1 Basaltic Rocks 206
5.2 Aluminous Ultramafic Rocks 226
5.3 Hydrothermally-Altered Andesite 229
5.4 Vapour Phase Crystallisation 233
5.5 Lightning Strike Fusion 234
Anthropogenic and Biomass Pyrometamorphism 242
6.1 Bricks/Ceramics 242
6.2 Spoil Heaps 254
6.3 In-Situ Gasification 260
6.4 Contact Metamorphism of Coal and Coal Ash Fusion 263
6.5 Biomass Surface Burning and Vitrification 271
6.6 Industrial Slag 281
6.7 Inorganic Solid Waste 286
6.8 Drilling 290
6.9 Artificial Fulgurite 292
Metastable Mineral Reactions 296
7.1 Quartz 300
7.2 Plagioclase 302
7.3 Muscovite 304
7.4 Chlorite 308
7.5 Biotite 311
7.6 Amphiboles 315
7.7 Clinopyroxene 316
7.8 Olivine 319
7.9 Al-Silicates 320
7.10 Garnet 323
7.11 Staurolite 325
7.12 Cordierite 328
7.13 Ankerite and Siderite 332
7.14 Pyrite and Pyrrhotite 335
References 337
Index 360