Louis V. Pirsson

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Louis V. Pirsson

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According to Wikipedia, Louis Valentine Pirsson was an American geologist and petrologist, best known for devising the CIPW norm for classifying igneous rocks. His 1915 "Textbook of Geology" was for decades the most widely used in the United States.

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A Quantitative Chemico-Mineralogical Classification and Nomenclature of Igneous Rocks (1902) (195)
Rocks and rock minerals (44)
The petrographic province of central Montana (1905) (34)
Geology of Bermuda Island; the igneous platform (1914) (30)
Highwood mountains of Montana (27)
The microscopical characters of volcanic tuffs; a study for students (1915) (23)
A Text-book of Geology (14)
Modifications of the "Quantitative System of Classification of Igneous Rocks" (1912) (13)
Geology of the Shonkin Sag and Palisade Butte laccoliths in the Highwood Mountains of Montana (1901) (13)
A deep boring in Bermuda Island (1913) (11)
The Geology of the Little Rocky Mountains (1896) (8)
On the Monchiquites or Analcite Group of Igneous Rocks (1896) (8)
The Texture of Igneous Rocks (1906) (7)
Geology of Bermuda Island; petrology of the lavas (1914) (6)
Contributions to the geology of New Hampshire; No. III, On Red Hill, Moultonboro (1907) (6)
Occurrence of sulphur, orpiment, and realgar in the Yellowstone National Park (1891) (5)
On the phenocrysts of intrusive igneous rocks (1899) (4)
Note on some volcanic rocks from Gough's Island, South Atlantic (1893) (3)
A text-book of geology : for use in universities, colleges, schools of science, etc., and for the general reader (3)
The Bearpaw Mountains, Montana; First paper [Part I] (1896) (3)
On some phonolitic rocks from the Black Hills [South Dakota] (1894) (2)
On mordenite (1890) (2)
Rock classification for engineering (1919) (2)
On the occurrence of leadhillite in Missouri and its chemical composition (1894) (2)
On the igneous rocks of the Sweet Grass Hills, Montana (1895) (2)
On the corundum-bearing rock from Yogo Gulch, Montana (1897) (2)
Contributions to the geology of New Hampshire; I, Geology of the Belknap Mountains (1905) (2)
Missourite, a new leucite rock from the Highwood Mountains of Montana (1896) (1)
Igneous rocks of Yogo Peak, Montana (1895) (1)
On some phonolitic rocks from Montana (1895) (1)
Bearpaw Mountains of Montana (1896) (1)
Note on the occurrence of the Oriskany Formation on Parlin Stream, Maine (1914) (1)
Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part III - Economic geology (1)
On the geology and petrography of Conanicut Island, Rhode Island (1893) (0)
On the crystallization of enargite (1894) (0)
Note on the occurrence of astrophyllite in the granite of Quincy, Massachusetts (1910) (0)
Foundations of geology (0)
Datolite from Loughboro, Ont (1893) (0)
Samuel Lewis Penfield (1906) (0)
Contributions to the geology of New Hampshire; No. II, Petrography of the Belknap Mountains (1906) (0)
On the fowlerite variety of rhodonite from Franklin and Stirling, New Jersey (1890) (0)
On some remarkably developed calcite crystals (1891) (0)
The rise of petrology as a science (1918) (0)
Editorial (1898) (0)
Origin of certain ore deposits [in sedimentary formations] (1915) (0)
Mineralogical notes (1891) (0)
Complementary rocks and radial dikes (1895) (0)
Editorial (1899) (0)
Introductory Geology: for Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of Science, etc., and for the General Reader. (1925) (0)
Contributions to the geology of New Hampshire; V, Petrography of Tripyramid Mountain (1911) (0)
Aegirite granite from Miask, Ural Mts. (1900) (0)
Bearpaw Mountains of Montana; First paper [Part II] (1896) (0)
On the determination of minerals in thin rock sections by their maximum birefringence (1900) (0)
Accession 16-254 Henry Stephens Washington Papers, 1890-1909 (0)
Bearpaw Mountains of Montana; Second paper [Part 1] (1896) (0)
Gmelinite from Nova Scotia (1891) (0)
The classification of igneous rocks; a study for students (1921) (0)
Crustal warping in the Temagami-Temiskaming District, Ont (1910) (0)

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Yale University