Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

Anthony R. Philpotts is Emeritus Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Connecticut, a visiting fellow at Yale University, and an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts. He has over forty years of teaching experience. He has worked on Precambrian massif-type anorthosites, pseudotachylites, alkaline rocks, and liquid immiscibility in FeTi oxide systems and in tholeiitic magmas. He has been awarded the Peacock Memorial Prize of the Walker Mineralogical Club of Toronto and the Hawley Award of the Mineralogical Association of Canada. He has served as an editor for the Canadian Mineralogist and the Journal of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Jay J. Ague is the Henry Barnard Davis Memorial Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University, and the Curator-in-Charge of Mineralogy and Meteoritics at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He studies fluid flow, chemical reactions, mass transfer, and heat transfer in Earth's lithosphere, focusing on the metamorphic and igneous rocks comprising the deep roots of mountain belts. He has given the Daly Lecture for the American Geophysical Union and is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Geological Society of London, and the Mineralogical Society of America. He was the lead editor of the American Journal of Science (1998 to 2008), and has served on the editorial boards of Chemical Geology, Geology, and the Journal of Metamorphic Geology.

• Preface; Acknowledgments; List of units; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction to igneous and metamorphic petrology; 2. Pressures and temperatures in the earth; 3. Physical properties of magma; 4. Intrusion of magma; 5. Forms of igneous bodies; 6. Heat transfer and other diffusion processes; 7. Classification of igneous rocks; 8. Introduction to thermodynamics; 9. Free energy and phase equilibria; 10. Thermodynamics of solutions; 11. Phase equilibria in igneous systems; 12. Effects of volatiles on melt equilibria; 13. Crystal growth; 14. Isotope geochemistry related to petrology; 15. Magmatic processes; 16. Igneous rock associations; 17. Metamorphism and metamorphic facies; 18. Deformation and textures of metamorphic rocks; 19. Graphical analysis of metamorphic mineral assemblages; 20. Geothermometry, geobarometry, and pseudosections; 21. Metamorphic mineral reactions involving fluids; 22. Material transport during metamorphism; 23. Pressure-temperature-time paths and heat transfer during metamorphism; 24. Origins of rocks; Answers to selected quantitative questions; References; Index.

Review of previous edition: 'The real quality of this book lies in its authoritative character and depth of coverage … a volume which will likely be well thumbed and littered with 'stickies' and other place markers by students and professors alike … one of the excellent aspects of the book is the clever integration of different aspects of petrology … a 'must-have' for any self-respecting petrologist.' Jon Davidson, Elements