Metamorphic petrology
Metamorphic petrology
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作者：
K. Cox
(Nelson：英国泰晤士河畔Sunbury；精装本GB 14.95，平装本GB 8.50)是地质教育的经典之一，现已出版第三版，已被一代又一代高中生和本科生使用。新版与前一版基本相同，尽管板块构造学的革命导致它对最后几章进行了重组和重写。还对熔岩、花岗岩、花岗岩、环墙和混合岩的部分进行了修改。一些数字和车牌已经被更改。这确实突显了早期版本遗留下来的一些材料的古老，因为这些年来并没有善待一些插图。然而，总体而言，尽管没有美国竞争对手的一些更华丽的风格，但销量似乎相当可观。这一版的参考文献已经更新，尽管这一点在一些章节中比在其他章节中更明显。并不是所有拥有第二版的人都需要去读第三版，因为有一些重要的最新发展没有报道的主要领域。例如，地貌学家会发现描述性和演化性(循环)地貌学占主导地位，而对更新世感兴趣的学生会发现许多不可信的想法(例如，冰川=洪水)，但对古代ERGS或深海岩心记录的了解太少。沙漠地貌学家将发现，沙丘和沙丘仍然是研究沙漠沙丘的基本框架，盐风化作用没有被考虑在内。
(Nelson: Sunbury-on-Thames, UK; hardback£ 14.95, paperback£ 8.50) is one of the classics of geological education and, now in its third edition, has been used by generations of advanced school students and undergraduates. The new edition is substantially the same as its predecessor, though the revolution in plate tectonics has caused it to have its final chapters reorganised and rewritten. There have also been modifications to the sections on batholiths, granite, granitization, ring dykes and migmatites. Some of the figures and plates have been changed. This does rend to highlight the antiquity of some of the material left over from earlier editions, for the years have not treated some of the illustrations kindly. Overall, however, the volume seems to be quite handsome without going in for some of the more flamboyant touches of its American competitors. The references have been updated for this edition though this is more evident in some chapters than in others.It is not entirely evident that anyone who owns the second edition needs to go out for the third, for there are some major fields in which important recent developments are not reported. The geomorphologist, for example, will find that descriptive and evolutionary (cyclic) geomorphology predominates, whereas the student interested in the Pleistocene will find many discredited ideas (for example, glacial= pluvial) but far too little on ancient ergs or the deep-sea core record. The desert geomorphologist will find that siefs and barchans are still the basic framework for a study of desert dunes and that salt weathering is not considered.