Structure, Dynamics, and Properties of Silicate Melts

✍ Scribed by Jonathan F. Stebbins (editor); Paul F. McMillan (editor); Donald B. Dingwell (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 632
• Series: Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry; 32
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Volume 32 of Reviews in Mineralogy introduces the basic concepts of melt physics and relaxation theory as applied to silicate melts, then to describe the current state of experimental and computer simulation techniques for exploring the detailed atomic structure and dynamic processes which occur at high temperature, and finally to consider the relationships between melt structure, thermodynamic properties and rheology within these liquids. These fundamental relations serve to bridge the extrapolation from often highly simplified melt compositions studied in the laboratory to the multicomponent systems found in nature. This volume focuses on the properties of simple model silicate systems, which are usually volatile-free. The behavior of natural magmas has been summarized in a previous Short Course volume (Nicholls and Russell, editors, 1990: Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 24), and the effect of volatiles on magmatic properties in yet another (Carroll and Holloway, editors, 1994: Vol. 30).

The Mineralogical Society of America sponsored a short course for which this was the text at Stanford University December 9 and 10, 1995, preceding the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union and MSA in San Fransisco, with about 100 professionals and graduate students in attendance.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Editors' Preface
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. STRUCTURAL RELAXATION AND THE GLASS TRANSITION
Chapter 2. RELAXATION IN SILICATE MELTS: SOME APPLICATIONS
Chapter 3. RHEOLOGY AND CONFIGURATIONAL ENTROPY OF SILICATE MELTS
Chapter 4. VISCOELASTICITY
Chapter 5. ENERGETICS OF SILICATE MELTS
Chapter 6. THERMODYNAMIC MIXING PROPERTIES AND THE STRUCTURE OF SILICATE MELTS
Chapter 7. DYNAMICS AND STRUCTURE OF SILICATE AND OXIDE MELTS: NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE STUDIES
Chapter 8. VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF SILICATE LIQUIDS
Chapter 9. X-RAY SCATTERING AND X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY STUDIES OF SILICATE MELTS
Chapter 10. DIFFUSION IN SILICATE MELTS
Chapter 11. PRESSURE EFFECTS ON SILICATE MELT STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES
Chapter 12. COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF SILICATE MELTS