Advanced Igneous Petrology

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