Advanced Igneous Petrology Fall 2009   12.486

I. Rock-forming minerals:  crystal chemistry, phase diagrams

Sept. 14    1- Olivine and Pyroxene                                                    Lab 1. pyx & oliv

Sept. 16    2- Feldspar                                                                        

Sept. 18    3- Sheet Silicates and Amphiboles                                     Lab 2. feldspars          

II. Survey of terrestrial igneous rocks and associated tectonic settings

Sept. 21  4-Igneous Rock Classification schemes                              

Basalts and crystallization and melting processes

Sept. 23     5-    Fractional crystallization  1, simple systems              Lab 4. MORB

Oct. 5, 7    6, 7- Fractional crystallization 2, natural systems

Oct. 9, 13  8, 9- Mantle melting - phase equilibrium controls            

Oct. 15     10-  Mantle melting & MORB                                          

Island Arcs and Continental Arcs                                            

Oct. 23    11-  Compositional variations in arc magmas

Oct. 26    12-  Effects of H2O on melting                                           

Oct. 28    13-  Arcs – recent papers

Oct. 30    14-  Subduction zones – Mantle melting

Nov.  2    15- Effects of crustal assimilation                                       Lab 5. Magma mixing

Nov.  4     16- Granites I,  Phase relations                                                    Crustal contam.

Nov.  6     17- Granites II  Compostional variations

CFBs, OIBs and undersaturated rocks

Nov.  9    18- Compositions & distributions of undersaturated basalts          

Nov. 12   19- Phase equilibrium controls on mantle source regions               

Nov.  13  20- Fractional crystallization and undersat. rock series       Lab 6. Basalts II

                                                                                                           

Early earth magmas

Nov.  16    21- Komatiites I rock compositions & phase relations     

Nov.  20    22- Komatiites II – deep earth melting ?                           

Layered intrusions

Nov.  24     23- Bushveld, Skaergaard & Stillwater

Planetary magmas

Dec.   2   24- The lunar highlands                                                       Lab 7. Lunar samples

Dec.   4   25- Lunar mare basalts                                                        

Dec.   7   26- Mars

Dec.   9   27- Meteorite Parent Bodies