Phase Diagrams for Geoscientists: An Atlas of the Earth's Interior

by Tibor Gasparik

Overview

Presented in this new, full-color edition, with the first polychrome phase diagrams to be published, this geoscientific atlas is backed by the author’s unrivalled dataset, and amounts to the most complete survey yet of phase relations in Earth’s chemistry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461457763
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	08/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	462
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Professor Gasparik was born July 21, 1950, in Levice, now Slovakia. In 1973, he received a M.S. in Geology from the Komensky University, Bratislava. After moving to the United States in 1976, he commenced graduate studies at SUNY Buffalo in 1977, continuing in 1978 at SUNY Stony Brook, from where he received a Ph.D. in Experimental Petrology in 1981. He spent the next 4 years as post-doc at the University of Chicago, returning in 1985 to SUNY Stony Brook. He became Research Assistant Professor in 1986 and Associate Professor in 1989 at the Department of Geosciences, where he currently holds this position.

Table of Contents

1 Thermodynamic Model and Techniques .-2 System MgO–SiO2 .- 3 System MgO–Al2O3–SiO2 .- 4 System CaO–MgO–SiO2 .- 5 System CaO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2 Undersaturated with Silica .- 6 System CaO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2 Saturated with Silica .- 7 Systems with Na and Ca at Lithospheric Pressures.- 8 System Na2O–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2 .- 9 System Enstatite–Diopside–Jadeite.- 10 Composition and Structure of the Earth’s Interior.- 11 References .- 12 Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"Tibor Gasparik has devoted his career to determining the high-pressure, high-temperature phase relations of the geologically important Sodium-Calcium-Magnesium-Aluminium-Silicon (NCMAS) oxide system. This book is his opus magnum, summarizing more than 1700 experiments in over 120 figures. … I have found Phase Diagrams for Geoscientists to be a useful first port-of-call for finding the P-T stability fields … and I can recommend the book as a reference for geoscientists requiring an overview of the stable phase assemblages in the top 700 km of the Earth." (David Dobson, Geological Magazine, Vol. 142 (2), 2005)

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