Defects and Processes in the Solid State: Geoscience Applications: Volume 14 The McLaren Volume(Volume 14 Developments in Petrology)

This book in honour of Alexander Clark McLaren on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and retirement has as its theme the role of defect structures in the processes of deformation, phase transformations and microstructural development in rocks and minerals. These topics also span the major scientific interests that have exercised the mind and research activities of Alexander Clark McLaren over the past forty years.

Table of Contents:
Preface. Table of Contents. Alexander Clark McLaren (J.N. Boland). A. DEFORMATION. A Critical Review of Investigations into Transformation Plasticity (A. Meike). Evolution of Inclusions in Wet Synthetic Quartz as a Function of Temperature and Pressure; Implications for Water Weakening (J. Gerretsen, A.C. McLaren, M.S. Paterson). Microstructure of Kink Band Boundaries in Naturally Deformed Chewings Range Quartzite (C.K. Mawer, J.D. Fitz Gerald). Shock-induced Melting and Silica Polymorph Formation, Vredefort Structure, South Africa (J.C. White). Crystal Rotation During Flattening and Shearing of Naturally Deformed Plagioclase (J.H. Kruhl). Defect Structures in a Quartz-Tremolite Rock Under High Stresses: Evidence for Amorphization (L.N. Dell'Angelo). Transition from Fracturing to Viscous Flow in a Naturally Deformed Metagabbro (H. Stünitz). Mass Transfer and Microfracturing in Gabbroic Mylonites of the Guadalupe Igneous Complex, California (B. Lafrance, R.H. Vernon). Controlling the Spatial Distribution of Deformation in Experimentally Deformed and Dehydrated Gypsum (R. Panozzo Heilbronner). Deformation Lamellae in Metals and Minerals (M.R. Drury). The High Temperature Shear Mode Inelasticity of Iron - an Exploratory Foray into the FCC Field (I. Jackson). Theory of Time-Dependent Failure for Fractal Porous Aggregates (R.F. Cook). B. PHASE TRANSFORMATION AND EXSOLUTION. Microstructures of Pyroxenes from the Whin Sill, Northern England (P.P.K. Smith, P.E. Champness). Storage and Release of Elastic Strain Energy: the Driving Force for Low-Temperature Reactivity and Alteration of Feldspar (W.L. Brown, I. Parsons). Phase Transitions and Domain Growth in CaAl2Ge2O8 - Feldspar (W.F. Müller, Y. Vojdan-Shemshadi). The Tweed Microstructure of &agr;-PbO and its Relationship to the Low Temperature Improper Ferroelastic Phase Transition (R.L. Withers, S. Schmid, J.D. Fitz Gerald). Crystalline Frameworks as Hyperbolic Films (S.T. Hyde). C. DEFECTS, MECHANISMS AND MICROSTRUCTURES. Water in Hydrothermally Grown Sapphire (&agr;-Al2O3) (D. Mainprice, S. Taki, M. Hosaka). Microstructural and Defect Development in Heat Treated Heavitree Quartzite (J.N. Wang et al.). Enantiomorphism and Planar Defects in Length-Fast Chalcedony (S.L. Cady et al.). Structural Features of Zirconolite, Hollandite and Perovskite, the Major Waste-Bearing Phases in Synroc (K.L. Smith, G.R. Lumpkin). Problems and Progress in the Elucidation of U and Pb Transport Mechanisms in Zircon (J.K.W. Lee). Coherent and Incoherent Interface Structures in Natural Haematite/Magnetites (L.A. Bursill, Peng Ju Lin). Subject Index.

Review :
Wolf Uwe Reimold, Economic Geology Research Unit In fact, I am now convinced that this series of papers should find a wide-ranging readership, including physicists, mineralogists, structural and metamorphic geologists, metallurgists, and yes - even geochronologists and workers in the field of impact cratering - just to mention a few obvious disciplines that are directly related to the topics dealt with here. And they are dealt with by experts in their fields, and this, together with the obvious care taken by the editors in the selection of high-calibre reviewers, assured that each individual contribution is of highest scientific quality.There can be no doubt that this book will serve as an important reference volume for numerous workers in the field of microstructures as well as students of the related disciplines. At the very reasonable prices for both the hard and paperback editions no relevant library should fail to make this volume available to its customers. I wish to congratulate the editors, the authors, and the referees for an, overall, excellent achievement. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ...this volume is an extremely useful and valuable reference book for all geologists and materials scientists who are interested in the solid physics of geological and industrial materials. It should certainly be in every earth science and material science library. Tectonophysics Stan White The book is, above all, a deserved tribute to the considerable contributions of Alex McLaren to the quantification of the micro-microstructural studies of minerals. Journal of Structural Geology