Quantitative Classification of Igneous Rocks Based on Chemical and Mineral Characters, with a Systematic Nomenclature. By Whitman Cross Joseph P. Iddings Louis V. Pirsson Henry S. Washington, with an ...
During the past two-and-a-half years of traversing the central part of Gusev Crater, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has analyzed the brushed and ground-into surfaces of multiple rocks using the ...
Introduction -- Physical properties of magma -- Intrusion of magma -- Forms of igneous bodies -- Cooling of igneous bodies and other diffusion processes -- Classification of igneous rocks -- ...