Abstract
THESE attractive and handy volumes, which cover the whole field of practical petrology, present in the form of convenient “Parts” the matter contained in the original treatise which appeared three years ago as a single volume. They deal separately with the three divisions into which the subject naturally falls, according as the methods described concern (a) raw material, such as rock specimens, crushed rock, or loose detritals; (b) material mounted for study under the microscope; and (c) chemical analyses.
Petrographic Methods and Calculations.
By Dr. Arthur Holmes. Part 1: Specific Gravity, Separation and Determination of Minerals, Detrital Sediments. Pp. xv + 230. Part 2: The Study of Thin Sections. Pp. xiii + 231–383 + 4 plates. Part 3: Chemical Methods and Calculations. Pp. xiii + 384+515. (London: T. Murby and Co., 1923.) Part 1, 15s. 6d. net; Part 2, 10s. 6d. net; Part 3, 8s. 6d. net.
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B., A. Petrographic Methods and Calculations. Nature 113, 923 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113923a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113923a0