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Petrology and Plate Tectonics
Petrology and Plate Tectonics
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Author(s): Glazner, Allen
ISBN No.: 9780190490645
Pages: 630
Year: 202505
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 193.19
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Status: Available

Chapter 1 Plate Tectonics and Petrology Chapter 2 Raw Materials: Formation of the Earth Chapter 3 Mid-Ocean Ridges and Production of Oceanic Crust Chapter 4 How Rocks Melt and How Melts Crystallize Chapter 5 Metamorphism and Hydration of Oceanic Lithosphere Chapter 6 Subduction and the Formation of Blueschists and Magmas Chapter 7 Volcanism and the Spectrum of Igneous Activity on Earth Chapter 8 Origins of Magmatic Diversity Chapter 9 Tools for Probing Magma Origin and Evolution Chapter 10 Plutons and How They Form Chapter 11 Contact Metamorphism, Hydrothermal Systems, and Thermochronology Chapter 12 Making Continents: Continental Collision, Accretion, and Regional Metamorphism Chapter 13 Continental Rifting and Magmatism Chapter 14 Intraplate Magmatism, Hotspots, and Large Igneous Provinces Chapter 15 What's Next? Appendix 1 Selected Mineral Abbreviations Appendix 2 Review of Rock-Forming Minerals Appendix 3 Description and Classification of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks Appendix 4 Periodic Table of the Elements Appendix 5 Geologic Time Scale Appendix 6 Mineral/Melt Distribution Coefficients Appendix 7 Mineral Formulas and Formula Weights Appendix 8 Mineral Oxide Compositions Appendix 9 Oxide Molecular Weights and Gravimetric Factors Appendix 10 Plots of Average Igneous Rock Compositions.


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