Phase Equilibria in Metamorphic Rocks Thermodynamic Background and Petrological Applications /

• Main Author: Will, Thomas M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 71
• Subjects: Geology.; Mineralogy.

This books aims to provide an introduction to various techniques to determine the pressure and temperature conditions of formation of metamorphic rocks. The necessary thermodynamic foundations and principles, and the basis of geothermobarometric methods, are carefully derived. Special emphasis is pl...

Table of Contents:

• Substitutions: Some general remarks
• Thermodynamics of solid solutions
• Basic principles of geothermometry and geobarometry
• Potential pitfalls of pressure and temperature estimations
• Selected geothermometers and geobarometers
• Geothermobarometric investigations on a metapelitic rock
• Systems and model systems
• Representing minerals in compatibility diagrams
• General features of phase diagrams
• Types of phase diagrams
• Schreinemakers analysis.