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No detailed description available for "Mind over Magma".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (709 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780691187723
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5675338
DDC:
552/.1
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- THE FOUNDATIONAL ERA -- 1. Breath-Pipes and Ignivomous Mountains-Early Concepts of Volcanism -- 2. Basaltes Prismatiques-Lava, Columnar Basalt, and Ancient Volcanoes -- 3. Fire or Water?-The Debate over the Origin of Basalt -- 4. The "Insolently Triumphant Dogma"-The Collapse of the Concept of Aqueous Basalt -- 5. Subterraneous Lava-The Recognition of Intrusive Granite -- THE PRIMITIVE ERA -- 6. Wet or Dry?-The Origin of Granite -- 7. Classes and Orders-Petrography and Classification in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 8. Basalt and Trachyte-Early Theories of Diversity -- THE MICROSCOPE ERA -- 9. Minute Objects, Great Conclusions-The Rise of Microscopic Petrography -- 10. Basalt or Melaphyre?-Igneous Rocks in Time -- 11. Provinces and Plugs-Igneous Rocks in Space -- 12. Spaltung und Keme-The Emergence of the Theory of Differentiation -- 13. Physical Chemistry and Petrology-The Mechanism of Differentiation -- 14. The Language of Petrology-Nomenclature and Classification -- 15. Meldometers and Thermocouples-Early Experimental Petrology -- THE EXPERIMENTAL ERA -- 16. Clearing the Mists-The Theory of Crystallization-Differentiation -- 17. An Unsurpassed Natural Laboratory-Differentiated Sills and Layered Intrusions -- 18. Cone Sheets and Cauldrons-The Mechanics of Igneous Intrusion -- 19. Magma or Emanations?-The Beginnings of the Granite Controversy -- 20. Pontiffs and Soaks-The Resolution of the Granite Controversy -- 2l. Modes and Norms-Classification in Crisis -- THE GEOCHEMICAL ERA -- 22. Structures and Spectra-The Geochemical Revolution in Petrology -- 23. The Sea Below, the Heavens Above-The Extension of Petrology -- 24. Delta and Epsilon-Stable and Radiogenic Isotopes in Igneous Petrogenesis.
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25. Mathematical Modeling-Trace-Element Studies in Igneous Petrogenesis -- 26. Bombs and Buffers-Experimental Petrology after Bowen -- 27. Classification Salvaged?-IUGS to the Rescue -- THE FLUID DYNAMICAL ERA -- 28. Rayleigh and Reynolds-The Fluid Dynamics of Magma Chambers -- 29. Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Regained?-Cumulate Theory under Fire -- 30. Past and Future-Some Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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