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Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, 2/E
John D. Winter, Whitman College

ISBN-10: 0321592573
ISBN-13:  9780321592576

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2010
Format:  Cloth; 720 pp
Published:  02/16/2009
Status: Instock


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For a combined, one-semester, junior/senior-level course in Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Also useful for programs that teach Igneous Petrology and Metamorphic Petrology.

Typical texts on igneous and metamorphic petrology are geared to either advanced or novice petrology students. This unique text offers comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of both igneous and metamorphic petrology in a single volume—and provides the quantitative and technical background required to critically evaluate igneous and metamorphic phenomena in a way that students at all levels can understand. The goal throughout is for students to be able to apply the techniques—and enjoy the insights of the results—rather than tinker with theory and develop everything from first principles.


Features

• A balanced presentation limits the theory to the extent that students can practice it on real occurrences—without such excessive detail that the course becomes more like chemistry than geology.

• A concentration on the processes and principles involved in the generation of igneous and metamorphic rocks (rather than on lists of details to be memorized) enables students to develop a deeper understanding, a more lasting knowledge, and skills that will prove valuable beyond the classroom.

• A survey of actual occurrences of igneous and metamorphic rocks, and processes that produce them, is provided. This section is often greatly condensed in most other texts, but it is the most interesting and dynamic aspect of petrology.

• A techniques/occurrences approach for both igneous and metamorphic rocks that first presents the techniques, then applies them to assess a field area, and then expands the techniques as necessary if the field examples call for it.

• A comprehensive section on petrogenesis, particularly igneous petrogenesis, covers important igneous petrogenetic associations (such as mid-ocean ridge processes, mid-ocean islands, island and continental arcs, granitoid rocks, and continental alkaline associations).

• An accessible approach to mathematics, chemistry, and physics requires only a working knowledge of algebra; calculus is occasionally discussed, but is not required. Chemical and physical principles are presented early on, and at a level that is comprehensible and accessible.

• Worked examples, problems, and computer-related problems, found at the end of many chapters, carefully integrate a number of problems and computer programs (some used only in research at this point).

• Spreadsheets are used extensively in worked examples and problems. Spreadsheets, data files, and other programs (e.g., IGPET, TWQ, THERMOBAROMETRY, NEWPET, SUPCRT, etc.) can be downloaded from the web-site that supports the text.

• Approximately 350 figures and tables are provided.


New To This Edition

• New teaching and learning aids in each chapter include:
—Questions to Be Addressed
—Chapter Summary
—List of Important Terms
—Important First Principle Concepts.

• New Review Questions for each chapter are available online.

• A revised section on the Geothermal Gradient and a newly added discussion of Plate Tectonics appear in Chapter 1.

• Mantle Layering Models have been revised to more extensively illustrate the concepts at hand in Chapter 10.

• Focusing particularly on mid-ocean ridge segmentation, a reworked chapter 13 includes new models of melt formation and crystallization to form oceanic crust.

• Chapter 14 has been expanded to include analysis oceanic plateaus, new isotopic evidence to assess mantle convection and a newly created model for melt generation in plumes.

• A new section on Large Igneous Provinces has been added to Chapter 15, which also includes a revised conversation about the genesis of the Columbia River basalts.

• Section 16.8 has been completely revised to address new thermal models for subduction zones, a subduction zone model, and mantle enrichment processes.

• Chapter 23 houses an all-new section on Textural Geochronology.

• Ultra-high Pressure and Ultra-high Temperature metamorphism are addressed in a new section of Chapter 26.

• Chapter 28 is augmented with sections on pseudosections and the effects of the non-KFMASH components.

• A new Appendix aids students in estimating the density and viscosity of melts.


Table of Contents

Part I  Igneous Petrology  
Chapter 1   Some Fundamental Concepts  
Chapter 2   Classification and Nomenclature of Igneous Rocks  
Chapter 3   Textures of Igneous Rocks  
Chapter 4   Igneous Structures and Field Relationships
Chapter 5   An Introduction to Thermodynamics  
Chapter 6   The Phase Rule and One- and Two-Component Systems  
Chapter 7   Systems with More than Two Components  
Chapter 8   Chemical Petrology I: Major and Minor Elements  
Chapter 9   Chemical Petrology II: Trace Elements and Isotopes  
Chapter 10  Generation of Basaltic Magmas  
Chapter 11  Magma Diversity   
Chapter 12  Layered Mafic Intrusions  
Chapter 13  Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcanism  
Chapter 14  Oceanic Intraplate Volcanism  
Chapter 15  Continental Flood Basalts  
Chapter 16  Subduction-Related Igneous Activity Part I: Island Arcs  
Chapter 17  Subduction-Related Igneous Activity Part II: Continental Arcs  
Chapter 18  Granitoid Rocks  
Chapter 19  Continental Alkaline Magmatism  
Chapter 20  Anorthosites  

Part II  Metamorphic Petrology  
Chapter 21  An Introduction to Metamorphism  
Chapter 22  A Classification of Metamorphic Rocks  
Chapter 23  Structures and Textures of Metamorphic Rocks  
Chapter 24  Stable Mineral Assemblages in Metamorphic Rocks  
Chapter 25  Metamorphic Facies and Metamorphosed Mafic Rocks  
Chapter 26  Metamorphic Reactions  
Chapter 27  Thermodynamics of Metamorphic Reactions  
Chapter 28  Metamorphism of Pelitic Sediments
Chapter 29  Metamorphism of Calcareous and Ultramafic Rocks  
Chapter 30  Metamorphic Fluids, Mass Transport and Metasomatism 

Appendix A: Units and Constants
Appendix B: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix C: The CIPW Norm


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John D. Winter did his undergraduate work in geology at the University of Illinois at Urbana, and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle. Now Professor of Geology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, his principal fields of interest are in metamorphic petrology, mineralogy and crystallography, and geochemistry. He has spent several summers in Greenland, a summer in Labrador, and another in Norway, where he studied processes that take place during the formation and subsequent development of the ancient deep continental crust. He is also working on contact metamorphism in the Wallowa Mountains of NE Oregon. Briefly, he also worked as an exploration geologist in New Guinea.
 
Professor Winter teaches Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Introductory Geology, Environmental Geology, and Geochemistry. Outside the classroom, his interests include travel, mountaineering, hiking, mountain biking, and telemark skiing.

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