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Basalts and Phase Diagrams : An Introduction to the Quantitative Use of Phase Diagrams in Igneous Petrology / by Stearns A. Morse.
Springer eBooks EBA - Springer Chemistry and Material Science Collection 2024 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morse, Stearns A., 1931- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geochemistry.
- Earth sciences.
- Geology.
- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.
- Planetary science.
- Earth Sciences.
- Physical Chemistry.
- Planetary Science.
- Local Subjects:
- Geochemistry.
- Earth Sciences.
- Geology.
- Physical Chemistry.
- Planetary Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed. 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
- Summary:
- In this newly revised and expanded edition the reader finds both an introduction to igneous petrology and an exposition of the quantitative use of phase diagrams in understanding the origin and crystallization history of basic magmas. The book provides a step-by- step analysis of crystallization and melting in a limited number of geologically significant phase diagrams. The limiting processes of fractional and equilibrium melting and fractional and equilibrium crystallization are rigorously examined. Examples of the use of phase diagrams are drawn from the literature of layered intrusions, redox equilibria in iron-bearing systems, and the high pressure equilibria of melting in the mantle.
- Contents:
- - Introduction
- Mineralogy and Chemistry of Basalts
- Crystals and Melts
- The Phase Rule as a Tool
- Diopside and Anorthite: Supposedly a Binary Eutectic System
- Plagioclase: The System An-Ab
- Diopside-Albite: A Complex System
- Diopside-Anorthite-Albite
- Forsterite-Diopside-Anorthite: A Basaltic Analog
- lncongruent Melting: The System Forsterite - Silica
- Forsterite-Anorthite-Silica: Incongruent Melting in a Ternary System
- Forsterite-Diopside-Silica: Pyroxenes and Their Reactions
- Layered Intrusions
- Nepheline-Silica and the Rest of the Basalt Tetrahedron
- Potassium: Petrogeny's Residua System and Ternary Feldspars
- Iron and Oxygen
- Iron-Bearing Olivines and Pyroxenes
- The Effects of High Pressure
- Effects of Volatiles at High Pressure
- Leftovers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Morse, Stearns A. Basalts and Phase Diagrams
- ISBN:
- 3-030-97882-6
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