Atlas of Deformed and Metamorphosed Rocks from Proterozoic Orogens

Comprehensive atlas on granulite-facies rocks and associated mafic-ultramafic rocks of Proterozoic orogens from India, Sri Lanka, Western Australia, Africa, and more

T.R.K. Chetty (Author), Wilbert Kehelpannala (Author)

9780128179789, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 16 October 2021

416 pages, Approx. 400 illustrations (400 in full color)
27.6 x 21.6 x 2.6 cm, 1.09 kg

Atlas of Deformed and Metamorphosed Rocks from Proterozoic Orogens is a richly illustrated reference book featuring over 660 full-color field images of a range of lithologies from some Proterozoic terrains that were subjected to multiple events of magmatism, deformation, metamorphism, and metasomatism. The Atlas focuses on amphibolite to granulite facies lithologies and associated ma?c-ultrama?c rocks from Proterozoic orogens of India, Sri Lanka, Botswana, South Africa, East Antarctica, and Western Australia. Each chapter in the book begins with a brief review of geology, including deformation and metamorphic history, along with a regional geological map to help readers to visualize the ?eld observations in the relevant geological context. Each image is accompanied by a concise description providing location, lithology, structural fabric, possible deformational history, metamorphic features, partial melting, metasomatism, and other important crustal processes. This Atlas is an important source of information for a broad range of earth scientists, graduate and undergraduate students, researchers, academicians, and other professionals. This book will form a great treasure to those geoscientists who never had an opportunity to visit any of the Proterozoic orogenic belts.

1. Proterozoic orogens: introduction
2. Proterozoic orogens of Indian shield
3. Proterozoic orogens of Sri Lanka
4. Proterozoic orogens of Southern Africa
5. East Antarctica
6. Proterozoic orogens of Western Australia

Subject Areas: Geology & the lithosphere [RBG]