Handbook Physical Properties of Rocks

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Robert S. Carmichael
CRC-Press, Feb 16, 1982 - Science - 416 pages

This three-volume handbook provides reliable, comprehensive data on the properties of rocks, minerals, and other related materials. The format is largely tabular and graphical, designed for ease of use in comparisons and referencing. The chapters are contributed by recognized experts from leading university, industrial, and governmental scientific establishments.

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Contents

Introduction
2
Sedimentary Rocks Tables 86 to 91
9
References
204
Copyright

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absorption ABUNDANCES Al₂O albite analyses Andesite anhydrite average basalt Biotite Bright brown calcite Carbon CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS cleavage CO₂ coal Colo color colorless Cosmochim County crust crystals deposits diabase dielectric constant dolomite Dunite Earth electrical properties elements Explanation of column Fe₂O feldspar felsic frequencies gabbro Geochemistry Geochim Geological Geophys Geophysics Geothermal geothermometer grains granite green H₂O halite He/Ne hematite hornblende igneous rocks ions isotope K₂O L₁ L₂ length-fast length-slow mafic magnetite Metamorphic meteorites Minerals Group Na₂O Olivine optic axis Oxides P₂Os pegmatites PERCENT REFLECTION RELATIVE peridotite Petrol Pitchblende Plagioclase pleochroic polarization prismatic pyrite Pyroxene quartz Reflection spectra RELATIVE TO MGO resistivity Rhyolite samples sandstone semisplint shale shown in Figure Silicates SiO2 Sphalerite Splint sulfides Table temperature thermal TiO2 U.N. Symp uraninite uranium volcanic WAVELENGTH micrometers WSMM yellow

About the author (1982)

Robert S. Carmichael is professor of Geophysics and Geology in the Department of Geology, University of Iowa, Iowa City. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A.Sc. degree in geophysics / engineering physics, and then earned M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Earth and Planetary Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His thesis specialties were in seismology and rock magnetism, and while there, he was an Andrew Mellon university Fellow. After graduation in 1967, he spent a year at Osaka University in Japan, as a post-doctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and working in high-pressure geophysics. Upon return, he joined Shell Oil's Research Centre in Houston as a research geophysicist in petroleum exploration. Now at the University of Iowa, Dr. Carmichael has research interests in rock properties, exploration geo physics, high-pressure geophysics and magnetics, and earthquakes in the central Mid-continent region. He has authored over 25 scientific articles and done consulting for geotechnical and seismic problems. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Iowa Academy Science, Association of Professional Engineers, and Society of Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity.

Bibliographic information

TitleHandbook Physical Properties of Rocks
Volume 1 of Handbook of Physical Properties of Rocks, Robert S. Carmichael
EditorRobert S. Carmichael
Edition2, illustrated, reprint
PublisherCRC-Press, 1982
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedJun 15, 2009
ISBN0849302269, 9780849302268
Length416 pages
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