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EES 626: Advanced Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (4)

Course Contents:

1. Introduction to Petrology
2. Generalized compositions and end-member compositions of igneous metamorphic rock- forming minerals.
3. Classification of igneous rocks: Field, mineralogical, chemical, and genetic.
4. Igneous structures and field relationships
5. Phase rule and one- and two- component systems
6. Systems with more than 2 components
7. Chemical Petrology: Major and trace elements
8. Chemical Petrology: Trace elements and isotopes
9. Continuation of isotope geochemistry
10. Mantle melting and generation of basaltic magmas
11. Magma diversity
12. Layered mafic intrusions
13. Mid-ocean ridge volcanism
14. Oceanic intraplate volcanism
15. Continental flood basalts
16. Subduction related igneous activity: Island arcs
17. Continental alkaline magmatism
18. Anorthosites
19. Introduction to metamorphism
20. Stable mineral assemblages in metamorphic rocks: ACF, AKF, and AKFM diagrams
21. Granitoid rocks
22. Metamorphic facies and metamorphosed mafic rocks
23. Types of metamorphic reactions, Schreinemaker's rules, petrogenetic grid
24. Geothermometry and geobarometry
25. Metamorphism  of politic rocks

Suggested Readings :

1. An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, by John D. Winter (2009), 2^nd edition, Prentice Hall.

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