Basalts and Phase Diagrams: An Introduction to the Quantitative Use of Phase Diagrams in Igneous Petrology

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Mineralogy and Chemistry of Basalts....Pages 7-19
Crystals and Melts....Pages 21-29
The Phase Rule as a Tool....Pages 31-36
Diopside and Anorthite: Supposedly a Binary Eutectic System....Pages 37-60
Plagioclase: The System An-Ab....Pages 61-75
Diopside-Albite: A Complex System....Pages 77-84
Diopside-Anorthite-Albite....Pages 85-128
Forsterite-Diopside-Anorthite: A Basaltic Analog....Pages 129-149
Incongruent Melting: The System Forsterite-Silica....Pages 151-159
Forsterite-Anorthite-Silica: Incongruent Melting in a Ternary System....Pages 161-180
Forsterite-Diopside-Silica: Pyroxenes and Their Reactions....Pages 181-215
Layered Intrusions: A First Glance....Pages 217-241
Nepheline-Silica and the Rest of the Basalt Tetrahedron....Pages 243-254
Potassium: Petrogeny’s Residua System and Ternary Feldspars....Pages 255-293
Iron and Oxygen....Pages 295-323
Iron-Bearing Olivines and Pyroxenes....Pages 325-344
The Effects of High Pressure....Pages 345-379
Effects of Volatiles at High Pressure....Pages 381-404
Some Applications to Basalt Magma Genesis....Pages 405-425
Back Matter....Pages 427-493