Research Catalog

Title

Mind over magma : the story of igneous petrology / Davis A. Young.

Author

Young, Davis A.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

xxii, 686 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Igneous rocks

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [615]-673) and indexes.

Contents

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 -- 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 -- 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 Kerne - 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 -- 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 -- 21. Modes and Norms - Classification in Crisis -- 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 -- 25. Mathematical Modeling - Trace-Element Studies in Igneous Petrogenesis -- 26. Bombs and Buffers - Experimental Petrology after Bowen -- 27. Classification Salvaged? - IUGS to the Rescue -- 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.

ISBN

0691102791

LCCN

2002030790

OCLC

• ocm50447597
• SCSB-4814114

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries