Samuel James Shand

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Samuel James Shand

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PhD Geology University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Prof Samuel James Shand was a British mineralogist and petrologist, specialising in silicate analysis and igneous petrology. Life He was born in Edinburgh on 29 October 1882 the son of James Shand , originally from Sandsting in Shetland, and Catherine Grant Hunter from Lerwick in Shetland. In 1881 the family had moved from Shetland to Taap Hall, a curious Georgian tenement on Ferry Road in the Leith district. However they moved to "Selivoe" on Park Road in the Newhaven district and James was born there.

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Samuel James Shand's Published Works

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Eruptive Rocks: Their Genesis, Composition, Classification, and Their Relation to Ore-Deposits, with a Chapter on Meteorites (1927) (300)
The Pseudotachylyte of Parijs (Orange Free State), and its Relation to ‘Trap-Shotten Gneiss’ and ‘Flinty Crush-Rock’ (1916) (219)
Rocks of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (1949) (85)
The Nomenclature Of Petrology (1921) (50)
South African Scenery. A Textbook of Geomorphology (1943) (34)
CORONAS AND CORONITES (1945) (31)
On the Relations between Silica, Alumina, and the Bases in Eruptive Rocks, considered as a Means of Classification (1927) (31)
On borolanite and its associates in Assynt (26)
Eruptive Rocks; Their Genesis, Composition, etc (1943) (22)
A Recording Micrometer for Geometrical Rock Analysis (1916) (22)
Limestone and the Origin of Felspathoidal Rocks: an Aftermath of the Geological Congress (1930) (14)
The Dolerite-Chalk Contact of Scawt Hill (1931) (14)
Loch Borolan Laccolith, Northwest Scotland (1939) (13)
The Study of Rocks (1932) (13)
The Lavas of Mauritius (1933) (11)
Phase petrology in the Cortlandt complex, New York (1942) (10)
V.—On Saturated and Unsaturated Igneous Rocks (1913) (8)
The Terminology of Late-Magmatic and Post-Magmatic Processes (1944) (8)
Rift Valley Impressions (1936) (8)
IV.—The Norite of the Sierra Leone (1918) (6)
Mylonite, Slickensides, and the Great Glen Fault (1951) (6)
The Rocks of the Kedong Scarp, Kenya Rift Valley (1937) (6)
History of a Feldspar Crystal (1949) (5)
The genesis of intrusive magnetite and related ores; reply (1947) (4)
Discussion: The Origin of Nepheline Rocks in Ontario (1946) (3)
Rock-magma and rock-species (1950) (3)
III.—The Principle of Saturation in Petrography (1914) (2)
The Mineralogical Classification of Igneous Rocks: A Comparison of Recent Proposals (1935) (2)
Response to Review of "Eruptive Rocks" (1928) (1)
The species concept in petrology (1944) (1)
The Alkaline Rocks or South-West Africa (1915) (1)
Useful aspects of geology (1)
II.—The Principle of Saturation in Petrography: A Reply (1915) (1)
Eruptive Rock Names (1935) (1)
IV.—A System of Petrography (1917) (1)
A Rift-Valley in Western Persia (1919) (1)
The Witsand meteorite, South-West Africa (1942) (0)
Earth-Lore: Geology without Jargon (1933) (0)
Assimilation of Limestone at Loch Borolan (1933) (0)
The igenous complex of Leeuwfontein, Pretoria district (0)
Phenocryst And Inset (1931) (0)
An Olivine-Trachyte from Mont Dore, Auvergne (1935) (0)
The Alkaline Rocks of South-West Africa (1917) (0)
Augite-Biotite-Diorite (1937) (0)
Professor Holmes’ Hypothesis of the Genesis of Leucite and Melilite Rocks (1933) (0)
Petrographic Nomenclature (1923) (0)
On borolanite and its associates in Assynt (0)
The Great Glen Crush Belt (1953) (0)
The Definition of Augite-Biotite-Diorite (1936) (0)
The Genesis of Leucite and Melilite Rocks (1932) (0)
The Island of San Matteo (1928) (0)
Useful aspects of geology : an introduction to geological science for engineers, mining men, prospectors and all interested in the mineral industries (0)
Some Scottish granite-gneiss contacts and their interpretation (0)
The Classification of a Glassy Rock: The Pitchstone of Wormit, Fifeshire (1929) (0)
The Malignite of Poohbah Lake, Ontario (1941) (0)
Correspondence (1896) (0)
Reports and Proceedings (1918) (0)
Nomenclature of Eruptive Rocks (1928) (0)

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