Timescales of Magmatic Processes (eBook)

From Core to Atmosphere

Anthony Dosseto, Simon P. Turner, James A. Van-Orman (Herausgeber)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-4826-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is
critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the
Earth today. Since the Earth's origin 4.55 billion years ago
magmatic processes have continued to shape the Earth, producing the
major reservoirs that exist today (core, mantle, crust, oceans and
atmosphere) and promoting their continued evolution. But key
questions remain. When did the core form and how quickly? How are
magmas produced in the mantle, and how rapidly do they travel
towards the surface? How long do magmas reside in the crust,
differentiating and interacting with the host rocks to yield the
diverse set of igneous rocks we see today? How fast are volcanic
gases such as carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere?

This book addresses these and other questions by reviewing the
latest advances in a wide range of Earth Science disciplines: from
the measurement of short-lived radionuclides to the study of
element diffusion in crystals and numerical modelling of magma
behaviour. It will be invaluable reading for advanced undergraduate
and graduate students, as well as igneous petrologists,
mineralogists and geochemists involved in the study of igneous
rocks and processes.

Autor

Anthony Dosseto did his PhD at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France before taking up a postdoctoral position at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia in 2004. In 2009, he moved to the Univesity of Wollongong, Australia and in 2010 was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Simon P. Turner obtained his PhD at the University of Adelaide in 1991. Currently he holds an ARC Professorial Fellowship in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia where he specializes in the application of U-series isotopes to constraining the time scales of Earth processes with particular emphasis on subduction zone magmatism. James A. Van Orman is an Associate Professor in Geological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. He was awarded a PhD in geochemistry at MIT and undertook postdoctoral research in mineral physics and geochemistry at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. His research is centered on diffusion in minerals and melts, with current interests in deep planetary rheology, chemical exchange processes, and geochronology.

Inhalt

List of Contributors.

Introduction to the Timescales of Magmatic Processes (Anthony
Dosseto, Simon P. Turner, Fidel Costa and James A. Van
Orman).

1 Extinct Radionuclides and the Earliest Differentiation of the
Earth and Moon (G. Caro and T. Kleine).

2 Diffusion Constraints on Rates of Melt Production in the
Mantle (James A. Van Orman and Alberto E. Saal).

3 Melt Production in the Mantle: Constraints from U-series
(Bernard Bourdon and Tim Elliott).

4 Formulations for Simulating the Multiscale Physics of Magma
Ascent (Craig O'Neill and Marc Spiegelman).

5 Melt Transport from the Mantle to the Crust -
Uranium-Series Isotopes (Simon P. Turner and Bernard
Bourdon).

6 Rates of Magma Ascent: Constraints from Mantle-Derived
Xenoliths (Suzanne Y. O'Reilly and W.L. Griffin).

7 Time Constraints from Chemical Equilibration in Magmatic
Crystals (Fidel Costa and Daniel Morgan).

8 Magma Cooling and Differentiation - Uranium-series
Isotopes (Anthony Dosseto and Simon P. Turner).

9 Defining Geochemical Signatures and Timescales of Melting
Processes in the Crust: An Experimental Tale of Melt Segregation,
Migration and Emplacement (Tracy Rushmer and Kurt
Knesel).

10 Timescales Associated with Large Silicic Magma Bodies
(Olivier Bachmann).

11 Timescales of Magma Degassing (Kim Berlo, James E. Gardner
and Jonathan D. Blundy).

Index.

Colour plates.

Rezensionen

"I found this book attractive in scope, easy and useful to
assimilate, and certainly highly interesting. It conveys the skills
of its authors as well as their immense enthusiasm for their
science; I recommend this book most highly."
(Geological Journal, 12 January 2014)

"Certainly this book is worth recommendation, not only as
a valuable handbook but also as a book which offers new hints for
further research on the problems mentioned within."
(Pure Appl. Geophys, 1 April 2013)

"This is definitely a book to borrow when you next have a
sighting of the OUGS library." (Open University
Geological Society Journal, 1 November 2012)

"The volume is well presented and clearly written by
authors who are leading authorities in their different fields; it
succeeds well in its stated objective of providing an accessible
introduc-tion to the subject and it should encourage others to
get involved." (American Mineralogist, 1 October
2012)

"In summary, this is a well-organized and thorough study
of a developing field in whole-earth studies. Many of the
papers stress that their studies are in the early stages and need
much more data to help refine the models. While clearly aimed
at a specialist audience, there is still much here to interest
people in other areas of the geosciences." (The
Leading Edge, 1 August 2012)

"Certainly this book is worth recommendation not only as a
valuable handbook but also a book which offers new hints for
further research on the problems mentioned within."
(PAGEOPH's, 2012)

"I would recommend this book to any serious student of magmatic
processes and expect that it will stand as a useful source book on
timescales for some time to come." (Bull Volcanol, 2011)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: earth sciences • Geomorphologie • Geowissenschaften • Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology and Volcanology • Petrologie u. Vulkanologie eruptiver u. metamorpher Systeme
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-4826-4 / 1444348264
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-4826-2 / 9781444348262