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Mandatory

   For theory:

     John Winter  "An introduction to igneous petrology", Custom textbook made for UBC by Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2012

     or

     John Winter  "Principles of igneous and metamorphic petrology", Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2010

     or

     John Winter  "An introduction to igneous and metamorphic petrology", Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2001

 

 

 

   For Labs:

    Perkins, Dexter, and Henke, Kevin, "Minerals in thin section", Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2000

 

Not mandatory, but may also be helpful for Labs:

 

    Nesse, William, "Introduction to optical mineralogy", Oxford University Press, New York, 1991.

    Mackenzie, W.S., Donaldson, C.H., Guilford, C. "Atlas of igneous rocks and their textures", Longman, 1982.