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courses more petrogenesis-orientated are im­ My main objective in writing this book has been to mediately confronted with a basic problem; the review the processes involved in present-day mag­ ma generation and their relationship to global average student does not have a strong enough tectonic processes. Clearly, these are fundamental background in geochemistry to understand the to our understanding of the petrogenesis of ancient finer points of most of the relevant publications in volcanic and plutonic sequences, the original tec­ scientific journals. It is virtually impossible to fmd tonic setting of which may have been obscured by suitable reading material for such students, as most subsequent deformation and metamorphism. authors of igneous petrology textbooks have de­ Until fairly recently, undergraduate courses in liberately steered clear of potentially controversial igneous petrology tended to follow rather classical petrogenetic models. Even the most recent texts lines, based on the classification of igneous rocks, place very little emphasis on the geochemistry of descriptive petrography, volcanic landforms, types magmas erupted in different tectonic settings, of igneous in

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Author

Marjorie Wilson (auth.)

Publisher

Springer London, Limited

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780412750809

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Anthropology