Petrology: Principles and Practice

✍ Scribed by Gautam Sen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 370
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This undergraduate textbook on the key subject of geology closely follows the core curriculum adopted by most universities throughout the world and is a must for every geology student. It covers all aspects of petrology, including not only the principles of petrology but also applications to the origin, composition, and field relationships of rocks. Although petrology is commonly taught in the junior year, this book is a useful resource for graduate students as well.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Introduction to Igneous Rocks....Pages 19-49
Phase Relations in Simple Systems: Key to Magma Generation, Crystallization, and Mixing....Pages 51-78
Phase Relationships in Ternary Systems....Pages 79-98
Magma Formation and Segregation....Pages 99-118
Igneous Rock Series: Basalt Magma Evolution....Pages 119-150
Basalt Magma Generation: Perspectives from Experimental Petrology....Pages 151-161
Basaltic Magmatism at Mid-Oceanic Ridges and Hawaiian Hot Spot....Pages 163-187
Large Igneous Provinces: Deccan Traps and Columbia River Basalts....Pages 189-207
Subduction Zone Magmas....Pages 209-242
Alkaline and Ultra-Alkaline Rocks, Carbonatites, and Kimberlites....Pages 243-260
Anorthosites and Komatiites....Pages 261-276
Sediments....Pages 277-297
Sedimentary Rocks....Pages 299-310
Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks....Pages 311-323
Metamorphic Facies, Reactions, and P – T – t Paths....Pages 325-350
Erratum to: Petrology....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 351-368

✦ Subjects

Geology; Mineralogy; Geochemistry