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LEC #TOPICS
1Rock-forming Minerals: Olivine and Spinel
2Rock-forming Minerals: Pyroxenes
3Rock-forming Minerals: Pyriboles
4Rock-forming Minerals: Feldspars
5Classification, Chemical Variations and Graphical Representations
6Fractional Crystallizationa and Magma Mixing in Mid Ocean Ridge Basalts (MORB)
7Compositional Systematics in MORB and Mantle Melting
8MORB Mantle Melts - Phase Equilibrium Controls on Liquid Compositions
9MORB Mantle Melts - Phase Equilibrium Controls on Solid Compositions
10Undersaturated Magmas High K Continental
11Kimberlites and Carbonatites, Untramafic Magmas, Komatiites
12Magma Mixing and Crustal Assimilation
13Mafic Systems
14Wet vs. Dry Fractional Crystallization
15The Significance of Igneous Rock Series
16Hydrous Differentiation - The Role of Amphibole
17Hydrous Mantle Melting - Phase Equilibrium Controls on Liquid Compositions
18Felsic Magmas - Granites Phase Relations
19Large Silicic Magmatic Systems
20Hawaii and Iceland
21CFBs (Continental Flood Basalts) - Compositional Diversity of Flood Basalt Magmas
22CFBs - Phase Equilibrium Controls on their Mantle Sources
23Bushveld, Stillwater, Skaergaard
24Anorthosites
25Lunar Highland and Maria
26Howardites, Eucrites and Diogenites

 








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