Ore Textures: Recognition and Interpretation

This book is specifically designed for the field geologist working without the benefits of sophisticated chemical, mineralogical or petrological support. It covers the basic building blocks of textural recognition beginning with infill, alteration and overprinting (the normal complexity caused by successive introduction of hydrothermal fluids usually accompanied or preceded by renewed fracturing) and ends with a detailed examination of textures associated with tectonic and intrusive breccias.
The book Provides the building blocks for understanding the full range of textures commonly associated with hydrothermal ore deposits
Contents
Acknowledgments
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Preface
Volume 1 • Infill Textures
1 Introduction
2 Recognition Criteria
3 Problems and Working Techniques
4 How and Where to Look for Infill Textures - Channelway Recognition
Volume 2 • Alteration Textures
1 Introduction
2 Basic Principles
3 Approach to Alteration
4 Alteration minerals - Some General Observations
5 Assessment Sheet
6 References
Volume 3 • Overprinting Textures
1 Introduction
2 Overprinting criteria
3 Overprinting Textures
4 First Order Criteria - Mineral Superimposition
5 First Order Criteria - Structural Superimposition
6 First Order Criteria - Structural Superimposition
7 Second Order Criteria Suspicion Arousing
6 References
Volume 4 • Broken Rocks - Breccias I
1 Introduction
2 Observation of Broken Rock Patterns
3 Approach to Understanding Broken Rock Patterns
4 Arrangement of Plates - Design Philosophy
5 References
Volume 5 • Broken Rocks - Breccias II
Introduction, Scope and Arrangement of Volume
1 Initial Recognition
2 General Features - Range in Styles and Scale of Intrusive Breccia
3 Multistage Structural and Hydrothermal Overprinting
4 Special Features Associated with Selected Intrusive Breccias
5 Intrusive Breccia Associated with Maar-Volcanoes and Associated Structures
6 Intrusive Breccia in Other Epithermal Systems
7 References
Index