Petrology for students / Петрология для студентов

When Cambridge University Press decided not to reprint Dr A. Harker’s well-known Petrology for Students it was suggested that a replacement be provided on the same lines. The present book, in which the section on igneous rocks has been written by Nockolds, that on sedimentary rocks by Knox and that on metamorphic rocks by Chinner, is the result. Dr Harker’s book, with its emphasis on carefully drafted drawings of thin sections, has for many years provided an essentially petrographic text for elementary classes in petrology. We have attempted to continue in this role, sufficient reference being made to the relevant scientific literature for the student to relate petrography to petrogeny.
Through the courtesy of CUP we have been able to use any of Harker’s thin-section drawings, and in the igneous section the majority of the drawings are his. Knox has drawn all the figures (except fig. 24.1) for the sedimentary section, and Chinner those (except fig. 36.5) for the metamorphic section. We are grateful to Mr G. M. Part for drawing figs. 3.1, 3.2. and 3.6, and to Dr Germaine Joplin for drawing figs. 9.1, 16.1 and 16.2. Figs. 12.1, 12.3 and 20.1 are reproduced from Dr Joplin’s A Petrography of Australian Igneous Rocks by kind permission of the author and the publishers, Angus and Robertson, and fig. 36.7 by kind permission of the Clarendon Press.
Virtually all of the thin sections illustrated in the igneous and metamorphic divisions of the book are available in the Harker Collection of Rock Slices in the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge University. We are grateful to the many contributors and to the successive curators who have built up and conserved this valuable  collection <...>