Importance of Mineralogy

and Petrology

By
Faisal Muhammad & Zaman Arshad
Earth’s Interior: mineralogical and seismic evidence

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Evolution of the mantle
through geologic time: an
isotopic evidence

Hofmann (1997), Nature

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Mineralogy and geodynamics: an evidence of ultra-deep
subduction and crust mantle recycling

Ye et al., (2000), Nature

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Geochronology and its
implications
• Oldest zircon indicates the
existence of the crust and
oceans in earlier Earth

• Valley et al., 2014, Nature

Geoscience

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Mineral deposits and
plate tectonics

Groves and Bierlein

(2007), GSL
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Role of mineralogy and Petrology Petrography and Rock Mechanics .

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Sajid et al., (2016),
Petrography and
Rock mechanics

Scale bar in 1000

micrometer

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Calculation of micro-petrographic (I p) index for studied rocks

Sajid et al., (2016), Petrography and Rock mechanics 10

• From
Skinner and
Porter, 1987
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