A textbook providing a quantitative approach to the petrologic principles of igneous and metamorphic rocks in a new edition.

Igneous Petrology provides up-to-date, integrated, comprehensive coverage of physical and chemical facets of magmatic rocks and magma systems. Field relations a

Igneous petrology was to some extent essentially a descriptive sci ence until about 1960. The results were mainly obtained from field work, major element analys

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

A concise introduction to the mineralogy and petrology of igneous and metamorphic rocks for all Earth Science students.