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

Tibor Gasparik, "Phase Diagrams forGeoscientists: An Atlas of the Earth's Interior"
ISBN: 1461457750 | 2013 | PDF | 467 pages | 16.3 MB

The book summarizes the results of the experimental studies of phaserelations in the chemical systems relevant to Earth, carried out by the authorin a time period of over 20 years between 1979 and 2001. It is based on 1000piston-cylinder experiments at pressures up to 4 GPa, and close to 700experiments carried out with a multi-anvil apparatus at pressures up to 24 GPA.This is the largest published collection of calculated phase diagrams for thechemical systems relevant to Earth. This is also the first time that the phaserelations at the relatively low pressures of the lithospheric mantle, mainlyapplicable to the experimental thermobarometry of metamorphic rocks and mantlexenoliths, are seamlessly integrated with the phase relations of the sublithosphericupper mantle and the uppermost lower mantle, primarily applicable to inclusionsin diamond and schocked meteorites.

"Tibor Gasparik has devoted his career to determining the high-pressure,high-temperature phase relations of the geologically importantSodium-Calcium-Magnesium-Aluminium-Silicon (NCMAS) oxide system. This book ishis 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-callfor finding the P-T stability fields … and I can recommend the book as areference for geoscientists requiring an overview of the stable phaseassemblages in the top 700 km of the Earth." (David Dobson, GeologicalMagazine, Vol. 142 (2), 2005)