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The Nature and Origin of Granite (Paperback, 2nd ed. 1997. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 1997)
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The Nature and Origin of Granite (Paperback, 2nd ed. 1997. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 1997)
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The origin of granite has for long fascinated geologists though
serious debate on the topic may be said to date from a famous
meeting of the Geological Society of France in 1847. My own
introduction to the subject began exactly one hundred years later
when, in an interview with Profes sor H. H. Read, I entered his
study as an amateur fossil collector and left it as a committed
granite petrologist - after just ten minutes I can hardly aspire to
convert my reader in so dramatic a way, yet this book is an
attempt, however inadequate, to pass on the enthusiasm that I
inherited, and which has been reinforced by innumerable discussions
on the outcrop with granitologists of many nationalities and of
many shades of opinion. Since the 1960s, interest in granites has
been greatly stimulated by the thesis that granites image their
source rocks in the inaccessible deep crust, and that their
diversity is the result of varying global tectonic context. So
great a body of new data and new ideas has accumulated that my
attempt to review the whole field of granite studies must carry
with it a possible charge of arrogance, especially as I have
adopted the teaching device of presenting the material from a
personal point of view with its thinly disguised prejudices."
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