Topics in Igneous Petrology [Hardcover]

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, and theoretical simulation of magma generation and evolution processes. This book contains contributions by international experts in different fields of igneous petrology and presents an overview of recent developments.

This book is dedicated to the late Dr Mihir K. Bose, former professor of the Department of Geology, Presidency College, Calcutta, India, who actively participated in the development of this new global view of igneous petrology.

Foreword.- Acknowledgments.- List of contributors.- 1. A review of the radiometric data placing the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend at 50Ma; placing constraints on hypotheses concerning the origin of the Hawaiian-Emperor Volcanic chain.- 2. Giant plagioclase basalt from northern part of Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, Central India.- 3. Occurrence and origin of scapolite in the Neoproterozoic Lufilian-Zambezi belt, Zambia: Evidence/role of brine-rich fluid infiltration during regional metamorphism.- 4. New seismic evidence for the origin of arc and back-arc magmas.- 5. Polybaric evolution of the volcanic rocks at Gabal Nuqara, northeastern desert, Egypt.- 6. Geochemical and geochronological data from charnockites and anorthosites from India's Kodaikanal-Palani Massif, Southern Granulite Terrain, India.- 7. Petrological evolution and emplacement of Siwana and Jalor Ring Complexes of Malani Igneous Suite, Northwestern Peninsular India.- 8. Deccan Traps Flood Basalt Province: an Evaluation of the Thermochemical Plume Model.- 9. Recycling of flow-top breccia crusts into molten interiors of flood basalt lava flows: Field and geochemical evidence from Deccan Traps.- 10. Upper Triassic Karmutsen formationl£(