In course work, we review concepts of phase relations and geochemistry in mantle melting and magmatic crystallization as well as water-rock interactions hydrothermal system. We visit the IODP core repository to examine core from different drill sites in the Atlantic. W

The ability to distinguish phase assemblages in hand specimen of oceanic rocks and derive information about the formation mechanism and condition from it. Interpret liquid lines of descent in terms of sequences of magmatic crystallization. Distinguish between different types and styles of hydrothermal alteration and work out mass balances of seawater-crust exchange.

assignment

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- L.M. Parson, B.J. Murton & P. Browning (eds.), 1992, Ophiolites and their modern oceanic analogues, Geological Society Special Publications No. 60, London
- A.D. Saunders & M.J. Norry (eds.), 1989, Magmatism in the ocean basins, Geological Society Special Publications No. 42, London
- M.C. Best & E.H. Christiansen, 2001, Igneous petrology, Blackwell Science
- M. Wilson, 1989, Igneous petrogenesis, Chapmann & Hall, London