Phase Diagrams for Geoscientists
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 29, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9783540002482
Subjects: Geochemistry; Mineralogy; Petrology; Petrology (General); Science; Science/Mathematics; Research; Earth Sciences - Geology; Earth Sciences - Mineralogy; Geophysics; Science / Mineralogy
First sentence: The core thermodynamic framework that made this book possible is the internally consistent thermodynamic model for the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 (CMAS) published in 2000 [56].
Description: "The book summarizes the author's experimental studies of phase relations in the chemical systems relevant to Earth, carried out in a time period of over 20 years using piston-cylinder and multi-avil presses. The results from the high-pressure studies by many other experimental petrologists were also included. The data were used to develop an internally consistent thermodynamic model, which was then used to calculate phase diagrams. This produced the largest collection of the calculated phase diagrams published so far, encompassing for the first time the temperature and pressure ranges corresponding to the whole upper mantle."--Jacket.