The Natural History of Igneous Rocks

Alfred Harker 1859 1939 was a prominent petrologist who spent his career at St John s College Cambridge lecturing on and researching rock formations and related geological activity He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1902 and was president of the Geological Society from 1916 to 1918 He used his Cambridge lectures as the foundation for this book first published in 1909 offering an introduction to the development of rocks and related volcanic activity With more than one hundred diagrams of various aspects of geological formations this work also provides a visual guide to the location and formation of igneous rocks Over the course of the work he covers the themes of vulcanicity rock structure crystallization the role of magma and the principles of rock classification giving a broad picture of the field of petrology around the beginning of the twentieth century Alfred Harker 18591939 was a prominent petrologist who spent his career at St John s College Cambridge lecturing on and researching rock formations and related geological activity He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1902 and was president of the Geological Society from 1916 to 1918 He used his Cambridge lectures as the foundation for this book first published in 1909 offering an introduction to the development of rocks and related volcanic activity With more than one hundred diagrams of various aspects of geological formations this work also provides a visual guide to the location and formation of igneous rocks Over the course of the work he covers the themes of vulcanicity rock structure crystallization the role of magma and the principles of rock classification giving a broad picture of the field of petrology around the beginning of the twentieth century Alfred Harker 18591939 was a prominent petrologist who spent his career at St John s College Cambridge lecturing on and researching rock formations and related geological activity He was elec