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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831007703321

Autore

Morse Stearns A. <1931->

Titolo

Basalts and Phase Diagrams : An Introduction to the Quantitative Use of Phase Diagrams in Igneous Petrology / / by Stearns A. Morse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-030-97882-6

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 pages)

Disciplina

552.26028

Soggetti

Geochemistry

Earth sciences

Geology

Physical chemistry

Planetary science

Earth Sciences

Physical Chemistry

Planetary Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.