The second half of the past century witnessed a remarkable paradigm shift in approach to the understanding of igneous rocks. Global literature records a change from a classical petrographic approach to emphasis on mineral chemistry, trace element characteristics, tectonic setting, phase relations, and theoretical simulation of magma generation and evolution processes. This book contains contributions by international experts in different fields of igneous petrology and presents an overview of recent developments.
This book is dedicated to the late Dr Mihir K. Bose, former professor of the Department of Geology, Presidency College, Calcutta, India, who actively participated in the development of this new global view of igneous petrology.
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Foreword Acknowledgment List of contributors PLUME AND HOTSPOTS
Upper Triassic Karmutsen formation of Western Canada and Alaska: A plume-generated oceanic plateau formed along a mid-ocean ridge nucleated on a late Paleozoic active margin
Jaroslav Dostal, J. Duncan Keppie, J. Brendan Murphy and Nicholas W.D. Massey
Deccan
Traps Flood Basalt Province
: an Evaluation of the Thermochemical Plume Model
Gautam Sen and D. Chandrasekharam
A review of the radiometric data placing the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend at 50Ma; placing constraints on hypotheses concerning the origin of the Hawaiian-Emperor Volcanic chain
Ajoy K. Baksi
Geology, petrology and geochemistry of the volcanic rocks of the Axum area, northern Ethiopia
Miruts Hagos, Christian Koeberl, Kurkura Koberto and Friedrich Koller
Geological and geochemical studies of Kolekole cinder cone, Southwest Rift Zone, East Maui, Hawaii
Nilanjan Chatterjee and Somdev Bhattacharji SEISMIC EVIDENCES ON MAGMA GENESIS
New seismic evidence for the origin of arc and back-arc magmas
Dapeng Zhao, Sadato Ueki, Yukihisa Nishizono and Akira Yamada CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALTS
Mineral compositions in the Deccan igneous rocks of India; an overview
Leone Melluso and Sam F. Sethna
Recycling of flow-top breccia crusts into molten interiors of flood basalt lava flows: Field and geochemical evidence from Deccan Traps
Hetu C.Seth, Jyotiranjan S. Ray, P. Senthil Kumar, Raymond A. Duraiswami, Rudra Narayan Chatterjee and Trupti Gurav
Giant plagioclase basalt from northern part of Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, Central India
Biswajit Ghosh
Petrogenesis of flood basalts of the Narsingpur-Harrai-Amarwara-Lakhnadon section of Eastern Deccan Province, India
Piyali Sengupta and Jyotisankar Ray ARC VOLCANISM
The intra-oceanic Barren Island and Narcondam arc volcanoes, Andaman Sea: Implications for subduction inputs and crustal overprint of a depleted mantle source
Martin J. Streck, Frank Ramos, Aspen Gillam, Dhanapati Haldar and Robert A. Duncan EXTENSIONAL VOLCANICS
Polybaric evolution of the volcanic rocks at Gabal Nuqara, northeastern desert, Egypt
E.A. Khalaf, M. Khalaf and F. Oraby OPHIOLITES
Textural fingerprints of magmatic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks associated with the Naga Hills Ophiolite, Northeast India
N.C. Ghose and Fareeduddin CHARNOCKITES AND ANORTHOSITES
Age and origin of the Chilka anorthosites, Eastern Ghats, India: Implications for massif anorthosite petrogenesis and break-up of Rodinia
Ramananda Chakrabarti, Asish R. Basu, Pradyot K. Bandyopadhyay and Haibo Zou
Geochemical and geochronological data from charnockites and anorthosites from India’s Kodaikanal-Palani Massif, Southern Granulite Terrain, India
Elizabeth J. Catlos, Kaan Sayit, Poovalingam Sivasubramanian and Chandra S. Dubey MINERALOGY, MINERALIZATION AND EARTH DYNAMICS
Kimberlites, supercontinents and deep Earth dynamics: Mid-Proterozoic India in Rodinia
Stephen E. Haggerty
Petrological evolution and emplacement of Siwana and Jalor Ring Complexes of Malani Igneous Suite, Northwestern Peninsular India
G. Vallinayagam and N. Kochhar
Occurrence and origin of scapolite in the Neoproterozoic Lufilian-Zambezi belt, Zambia: Evidence/role of brine-rich fluid infiltration during regional metamorphism
Crispin Katango, Friedrich Koller, T. Ntaflos, Christian Koeberl and F. Tembo Index