Petrology Principles and Practice

✍ Scribed by Sen, Gautam

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 369
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction.- Introduction to Igneous Rocks.- Phase relations in simple systems: Key to magma generation, crystallization, and mixing.- Phase Relationships in Ternary Systems.- Magma formation and segregation.- Igneous Rock Series: Basalt Magma Evolution.- Basalt Magma Generation: Perspectives from Experimental Petrology.- Basaltic Magmatism at Mid-Oceanic Ridges and Hawaiian Hot Spot.- Large Igneous Provinces: Deccan Traps and Columbia River Basalts.- Subduction Zone Magmas.- Alkaline and Ultra-Alkaline Rocks, Carbonatites, and Kimberlites.- Anorthosites and Komatiites.- Sediments.- Sedimentary Rocks.- Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks.- Metamorphic Facies, Reactions, and P-T-t Paths.- Appendix A: A Brief Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry.- Appendix B: Simplified CIPW Norm Calculation.

✦ Subjects

Alkaline and Ultra-Alkaline Magmas;Andesites;Basalt Magma Evolution;Basalts;(BIC Subject Heading)RBG;(BISAC Subject Heading)SCI031000;Carbonatite Magmas;Granitoids;Hot Spots and Magma Associations;Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Phase Diagrams;Kimberlitic Magmas;Metamorphic Reactions and Thermobarometry;Metamorphism and Plate Tectonics;P-T-t paths;Petrology Textbook;(Produktform)Paperback / softback;Rhyolites;Sedimentary Environments and Processes;Sedimentary Petrology;(Springer Marketing

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