Petrology is the study of rocks - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary - and the processes that form and transform them. Mineralogy is the study of the chemistry, crystal structure and physical ...

The origin and evolution of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Emphasis will be on physical and chemical processes, magma transport and crystallization, phase equilibria, development of metamorphic facies ...

As the early Earth solidified, gravitational segregation of dense, iron-rich melts drove mantle evolution, injecting geochemical signatures of shallow silicate fractionation into the deep mantle ...

The Journal of Geology, Vol. 23, No. 8, Supplement: The Later Stages of the Evolution of the Igneous Rocks (Nov. - Dec., 1915), pp. 1-91 (91 pages) ...

sedimentary/igneous petrology, and geochemistry. Dredged rocks are collected by dragging an open steel box with an attached chain bag along the ocean bottom behind a ship. Rocks in a dredge haul ...

Hello! I'm a first-year M.S. student at Miami. My research deals with the petrology of high-alkali igneous rocks called shonkinites. Hi! I am a Ph.D. candidte here at Miami! My research focus in ...

His research interests range from the evolution of metamorphic rocks in Montana and Greece to atomic ... online textbook for igneous and metamorphic petrology.

structural petrology, tectonic analysis, and metamorphic / igneous geology. As a quantitative, field-based geologist, I integrate a variety of analytical methods in my research to investigate how ...