Topics in Igneous Petrology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ray, Jyotisankar (Editor), Sen, Gautam (Editor), Ghosh, Biswajit (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geochemistry.; Earth Sciences.

The second half of the past century witnessed a remarkable paradigm shift in approach to the understanding of igneous rocks. Global literature records a change from a classical petrographic approach to emphasis on mineral chemistry, trace element characteristics, tectonic setting, phase relations, a...