Isotopic fingerprinting has long been used to trace magmatic processes and the components
that contribute to magmas. Recent technological improvements have provided an …

The advent of polarized light microscopy in the middle of the 19th century allowed
mineralogists and petrologists interested in igneous rocks to recognize the widespread …

Enlarged and fully updated, this new edition takes into account the considerable
experimental and theoretical progress recently made in the field. Introduction to the Physics …

The first report on cathodoluminescence (CL) of zircon goes back to the second half of the
nineteenth century (Crookes 1879), however, only in the last 40 years has this phenomenon …

Tourmaline-supergroup minerals are ubiquitous accessory minerals in rocks of the Earth's
crust. They can adjust their composition to suit a wide variety of environments, and therefore …

The equations for the chemical potentials of fayalite and forsterite components in olivine and
liquid may be used to derive a thermodynamic expression for the exchange coefficient K^\;\; …

Magnesium isotopic compositions of a profile through saprolites developed on a diabase
dike from South Carolina have been measured in order to study the behavior of Mg isotopes …

(Fe, Mg) 2SiO4 occurs in the polymorphic forms of olivine (orthorhombic), wadsleyite
(orthorhombic) and ringwoodite (cubic). These are some of the most common minerals in the …

Several of the supposedly anhydrous major minerals of the upper mantle have been shown
to regularly contain small amounts of hydrogen. The concentrations measured in the most …

Geochemical Kinetics is a textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduate
students. This book is based on my courses on geochemical kinetics at the University of …