Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Petrography; An Introduction to the Study of Rocks in Thin Sections
by Howel Williams, Francis Turner, Charles Gilbert
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0716702061
- ISBN 13
- 9780716702061
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1954 W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, CA. 1954. Hardcover. 12th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good+; bumped tips; dulling of the shadowbox spine label; foxing to textblock edges. No DJ as issued. Tan cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board in black shadowboxes. Small crystal cross-section on the front board. 406 pp 8vo. This book is concerned more with the description of rocks than with problems of genesis, more with petrography than with the broader field of petrology. Space is devoted to the mode of origin of igneous and metamorphic rocks, and even more is given to discussion of how sedimentary rocks are formed. The pigeon-holing of rock types is avoided as it gives false ideas of exactitude as most rocks are gradational in nature and this the study in detail through thin sections is most helpful in determining rock types. A clean presentable copy.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005965
- Title
- Petrography; An Introduction to the Study of Rocks in Thin Sections
- Author
- Howel Williams, Francis Turner, Charles Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0716702061
- ISBN 13
- 9780716702061
- Publisher
- W. H. Freeman and Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, CA
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- geology, mineralogy, petrology, petrography, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, thin sections,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geology;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...