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Igneous Petrogenesis

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  • © 1989

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  1. Marjorie Wilson

    1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  3. Magmatism at constructive plate margins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Mid-ocean ridges

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      Pages 101-150

  4. Magmatism at destructive plate margins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-152
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    2. Island arcs

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      Pages 153-190

    3. Active continental margins

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      Pages 191-225

    4. Back-arc basins

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      Pages 227-242

  5. Magmatism within plates

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      Pages 243-244
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    2. Oceanic islands

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      Pages 245-285

    3. Continental tholeiitic flood basalt provinces

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      Pages 287-323

    4. Continental rift zone magmatism

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      Pages 325-374

    5. Potassic magmatism within Continental plates

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      Pages 375-416

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 417-466
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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 intrusions and regional petrology . despite extensive discussions of the processes re­ However, the geologist of the late 1980s requires, in sponsible for the chemical diversity of magmas.

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  • Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Marjorie Wilson

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