Journal of Petrology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | Pages 475-476 | 2000
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Atlas of Micromorphology of Mineral Alteration and Weathering
Universitetet i Oslo
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Atlas of Micromorphology of Mineral Alteration and Weathering by Jean E. Delvigne. Canadian Mineralogist Special Publication 3. Mineralogical Association of Canada (in collaboration with ORSTOM, Paris), Ottawa, Ontario, 1999. 509 pp. ISBN 0921294433 (MAC), 2709914204 (ORSTOM). US$125 (US$100 to MAC members)
Those of us who do the sort of work with igneous rocks that demands we actively seek samples that are as close to the when-it-came-out-of-the-volcano state as possible (except, perhaps, in the thermodynamic sense), need to be reminded, on occasion, that our work represents merely an end-member in the great