This second edition is fully updated to include new developments in the study of metamorphism as well as enhanced features to facilitate course teaching.
Specific chapters are devoted to rates and timescales of met.
The use of textures to understand Metamorphic history and links to rock deformation are also explored.
It integrates a systematic account of the mineralogical changes accompanying metamorphism of the major rock types with discussion of the conditions and settings in which they formed.
This second edition is fully updated to include new developments in the study of metamorphism as well as enhanced features to facilitate course teaching