Michaelmas Reading List - Core 2: Petrology and Geochemistry
Please note that if references are marked with an asterisk (*) ,they have been highlighted by your lecturers as being particularlyuseful to you.
Book References
These references are for all lectures in this course.
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- Bourdon, B. et al, (2003) Uranium-series geochemistry, Review in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, Vol. 52.
- Dickin, A.P.(2005) 2 nd Ed. Radiogenic isotope geology, Cambridge University Press.
- Faure, G. (1986) Principles of isotope geology, Wiley.
- Gill, R. (2010) Igneous rocks and processes : a practical guide, Wiley-Blackwell
- Hoefs, J. (1997) Stable isotope geochemistry, Springer
- Mason, B, (1982) Principles of geochemistry, Wiley.
- Nixon, P.H., (1987) Mantle Xenoliths
- Nordstrom, D. K. & J. L. Munoz. (1985) Geochemical thermodynamics. (Chapter 4)
- Powell, R. (1979) Equilibrium thermodynamics in petrology.
- Rollinson, H.(1993) Using geochemical data: evaluation, presentation, interpretation. Longman Scientific & technical.
- Spear, F.S. (1993) Metamorphic phase equilibria and pressure-temperature-time paths.
- Taylor, S.R. & McLennan S.M. (1985) The continental crust, Blackwell Scientific.
- Wagner G. & Van Den Haute P. (1992) Fission-track dating. Kluwer Academic publishers
- Yardley, B. (1989) An introduction to metamorphic petrology
Chapters in Edited Volumes
- Cambell, I., The mantle’s chemical structure. In ‘The Earth‘s mantle: composition, structure and evolution. ’ Ed. I. Jackson (1998) Cambridge University Press
- Rice J.M. and Ferry J.M. (1982) “Buffering, infiltration and the control of intensive variables during metamorphism.” in Ferry J.M. (ed) Mineralogical Society of America Reviews in Mineralogy, 10, 263-326.
- Essene. (1983) Geologic thermometry and barometry. IN: Characterization of metamorphism through mineral equilibria, Ferry, J. M. & Burt et al (Eds.) Rev Mineralogy 10, pp153-206.
- *Carswell, D.A. & Harley, S.L., (1990) Mineral barometry and thermometry. In Eclogite-facies rocks (Ed. Carswell, Blackie). Pages 83-110.
Journal References
If available online the journal title will be hyperlinked to ABSTRACT LEVEL.
A number of these references will be available in the part II/III reprint collection housed in the Library Office. A full listing of what is in this collection is available on the Library website.
Lectures One to Six Albert Galy
Reading - A search in the Library catalogue - LibrarySearch - will give you the classmark and location in the Library for each book
- B. Mason, (1982) Principles of geochemistry, Wiley
- Taylor, S.R. & McLennan S.M. (1985) The continental crust, Blackwell Scientific
- A.P. Dickin, Radiogenic isotope geology, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- (Note – there is a second edition of this – 2005)
- G. Faure, (1986) Principles of isotope geology, Wiley.
- J. Hoefs, (1997) Stable isotope geochemistry, Springer.
- H. Rollinson, (1993) Using geochemical data: evaluation, presentation, interpretation. Longman Scientific & technical.
- J.W. Valley, H.P. Taylor Jr. & J.R. O'Neil, (1986) Stable isotopes in High Temperature Geological Processes, Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 16. [Chapters 1, 6, 8 & 9]
- J.W. Valley, D.R. Cole, (2001) Stable isotopes Geochemistry, Review in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, Vol. 43. [Chapter 5 ]
- Cerling, T.E. & Craig, H. (1994) Geomorphology and in-situ cosmogenic isotopes. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science22, 273-317.
- Uranium-series geochemistry, (2003) Review in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, Vol. 52. [Chapters 1, 3, 4, 9 & 10 ]
Lecture One
- P. Beattie, (1994), Systematics and energetics of trace-element partitioning between olivine and silicate melts - Implications for the nature of mineral melt partitioning, Chemical Geology, Vol. 117, pp 57-71
- J. Blundy & B. Wood, (2003), Partitioning of trace elements between crystals and melts, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, Vol. 210, pp 383-397.
- H. Elderfield & G. Ganssen, (2000), Past temperature and delta18O of surface ocean waters inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios , Nature, Vol. 405, pp 442-445.
- D. McKenzie & R.K. O'nions, (1991), Partial melt distributions from inversion of Rare-earth element concentrations, Journal of Petrology, Vol. 32, pp 1021-1091.
- A. Ruzicka et al., (2001), Comparative geochemistry of basalts from the Moon, Earth, HED asteroid, and Mars: Implications for the origin of the Moon, Geochimica et Chomochimica Acta, Vol. 65, pp 979-997.
Lecture Two
- R.N. Cayton & S.W. Kieffer, (1991), Oxygen isotopic thermometer calibrations, In Stable isotope geochemistry, The Geochemical Publication, Vol. 3, pp 3-10.
- J. Farquhar et al., (2000), Atmospheric influence of Earth's earliest sulfur cycle, Science, Vol 289, pp 756-758
- M.H. Thiemens & J.E. Heidenreich, (1983), The mass-independent fractionation of oxygen - a novel isotope effect and its possible cosmochemical implications, Science, Vol 219, pp 1073-1075
- M.H. Thiemens, (1999), Mass-independent isotope effects in planetary atmospheres and the early solar system, Science, Vol 283, pp 341-345
- E.D. Young et al., (2002), Kinetic and equilibrium mass-dependent isotope fractionation laws in nature and their geochemical and cosmochemical significance, Geochimica and Cosmochimica Acta, Vol 66, pp 1095-1104.
Lecture Three
- Bar-Matthews, M. et al. (1996) Carbon and oxygen isotope study of the active water-carbonate system in a karstic Mediterranean cave: Implications for paleoclimate research in semiarid regions,Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 60: 337-347.
- Bar-Matthews, M., Ayalon, A., Kaufman, A. & Wasserburg, G.J. (1999) The Eastern Mediterranean paleoclimate as a reflection of regional events: Soreq cave, Israel, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.166: 85-95.
- Gascoyne, M. (1992) Paleoclimate determination from cave calcite deposits, Quaternary Science Reviews 11: 609-632.
- Gat, J.R. (1996) Oxygen and Hydrogen isotopes in the hydrologic cycle. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science24, 225-262.
- Matthews, A., Ayalon, A. & Bar-Matthews, M. (2000) D/H ratios of fluid inclusions of Soreq cave (Israel) speleothems as a guide to the Eastern Mediterranean Meteoric Line relationships in the last 120 ky, Chem. Geol.166: 183-191.
Lecture Four
- Allegre C.J., Hart S.R., Minster J.F., (1983). Chemical-structure and evolution of the mantle and continents determined by inversion of Nd and Sr isotopic data. 2. Numerical experiments and discussion.Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 66: 191-213.
- Michard A., Gurriet P., Soudant M., Albarede F., (1985). Nd isotopes in french Phanerozoic shales - external vs internal aspects of crustal evolution. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 49: 601-610.
- Miller R.G. & O'Nions R.K., (1985). Source of Precambrian chemical and clastic sediments. Nature, 314: 325-330.
- Grousset F.E., Biscaye P.E., Zindler A., Prospero J., Chester R., (1988). Neodymium isotopes as tracers in marine-sediments and aerosols - north Atlantic. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.87: 367-378.
- Grove M., Harrison T.M., (1999). Monazite Th-Pb age depth profiling. Geology, 27: 487-490.
- Vidal P, Cocherie A & Le Fort P., (1982). Geochemical investigations of the origin of the Manaslu leucogranite (Himalaya, Nepal).Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 46: 2279-2292
- Zindler A., Hart S.R., (1986). Chemical geodynamics. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 14: 493-571.
Lecture Five
Sasha Turchyn
- Wagner G. & Van Den Haute P. (1992) Fission-track dating. Klumer Academic publishers.
- Schaller M., et al. (2001) Large-scale erosion rates from in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides in European river sediments. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.188, 441-458.
- Friedhelm von Blanckenburg F. (2005) The control mechanisms of erosion and weathering at basin scale from cosmogenic nuclides in river sediment. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.237, 462-479.
- Braucher, R. et al. (1998) Brazilian laterite dynamics using in situ-produced Be-10. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.163, 197-205.
- Brown, E.T. et al. (1994). The development of iron crust lateritic systems in Burkina-Faso, West Africa examined with in-situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.124, 19-33.
Lecture Six
- Bourdon et al. (1996) Constraints on mantle melting at mid-ocean ridges from global 238U- 230Th disequilibrium data. Nature 384: 231-235
- Pyle D.M., et al. (1988) Magma-cumulate mixing identified by U-Th disequilibrium dating. Nature 331: 157-159
- Pyle D.M., (1992) The volume and residence time of magma beneath active volcanoes determined by decay-series disequilibria methods. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.112, 61-73.
Lecture Seven
S A Gibson
- Brey, G.P., Vadim K. Bulatov, V. K. and Andrei Girnis, (2008) Geobarometry for Peridotites: Experiments in Simple and Natural Systems from 6 to 10 GPa. Journal of Petrology 49(1):3-24
- Carswell, D.A. & Harley, S.L. (1990): Mineral barometry and thermometry. IN: "Eclogite Facies Rocks", D.A. Carswell, ed. Blakkie, Glasgow, 83-110.
- Dawson, J.B. & Smith, J.V., 1975. Occurrence of diamond in a mica-garnet lherzolite xenolith from kimberlite. Nature 254, 580-581.
- *Gibson, S.A. Malarkey J. & Day, J.A. 2008 Melt Depletion and Enrichment beneath the Western Kaapvaal Craton: Evidence from Finsch Peridotite Xenoliths. Journal of Petrology 10.1093
- Smith, D. (1999) Temperatures and pressures of mineral equilibration in peridotite xenoliths: Review, discussion, and implications. In: Y. Fei, C.M. Bertka, and B.O., B.O. Mysen, Eds., Mantle Petrology: Field Observations and High Pressure Experimentation, Geochemical Society Special Publication, 6, 171-188. Geochemical Society, St. Louis, MO.
- Hawkesworth, C.J., Pearson, D.G. & Turner, S.P., 1999. Chemical and temporal variations in the Earth’s lithosphere. Phil Trans R. Soc A 357, 647-669.
- O’Reilly, S., Griffin, W.L., Djomani, Y., & Morgan, P., (2001) Are lithospheres forever? GSA Today, 11, 4-10.
- Pearson, D.G., R.W. Carlson, S.B. Shirey, F.R. Boyd and P.H. Nixonet al., (1995) Stabilisation of Archean lithospheric mantle: A Re-Os isotope study of peridotite xenoliths from the Kaapvaal craton. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 134, 341-357.
- *Shirey, S., Harris, J.W., Richardson, S.H., Fouch, M.J., James, D.E., Cartigny, P., Deines, P. & Viljoen, F., (2002) Diamond genesis, seismic structure, and evolution of the Kaapvaal Zimbabwe craton. Science, 297, 1683-1686
- * Nimis, P., and Grütter, H., (2009), Internally consistent geothermometers for garnet peridotites and pyroxenites: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 159, p. 411-427, doi: 10.1007/s00410-009-0455-9.
Lecture Eight
S A Gibson
- Arndt, N., Helmstaedt, H. & Gregoire, M. 2009. Origin of Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle: Some Petrological Constraints Lithos 109, 61-71
- *Bernstein, S., P. B. Kelemen, et al. (2007). Consistent olivine Mg# in cratonic mantle reflects Archean mantle melting to the exhaustion of orthopyroxene. Geology 35(5): 459-462.
- *Boyd, F.R., (1989) Compositional distinction between oceanic and cratonic lithosphere. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 96, 15-26.
- Dawson, J.B., Guerney, J.J. & Lawless, P.J., 1975. Palaeogeothermal gradients derived from xenoliths in kimberlite. Nature 257, 299-300
- *Foley, S. F., (2008),Rejuvenation and erosion of the cratonic lithosphere, Nature Geoscience, 1, 503-510
- Herzberg, C., (2004) Geodynamic information in peridotite petrology. J. Petrology 45, 2507-2530.
- *Kinny, P. D., & Dawson, J. B. (1992) A mantle metasomatic injection event linked to late Cretaceous kimberlite magmatism, Nature, 360, 726-728
- *Liu, C. Z. et al, (2008), Ancient, highly heterogenous mantle beneath Gakkel, ridge, Arctic Ocean. Nature, 452, 311-316
Lecture Nine
S A Gibson
- Davis, F.A., Hirschmann, M.M. & Humayun, M., (2011), The composition of the incipient partial melt of garnet peridotite at 3 GPa and the origin of OIB Earth & planetary science letters, 308, 380-390
- *C. Herzberg, P. Raterron & J. Zhang, (2000), New experimental observations KLB-1. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. , 1 , 1051
- S.A Gibson, R.N.Thompson & A.P. Dickin, (2000). Ferropicrites: geochemical evidence mantle plumes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 174, 355-374
- K. Hirose & I. Kushiro (1993), Partial melting of dry peridotites at high pressures: Determination segregated from peridotite using aggregates of diamond, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 114, 477-489
- *C.H. Langmuir, E.M. Klein & T. Plank. Petrological systematics of mid-ocean generation beneath ocean ridges. AGU Monograph 71 (1992) 183-280. (PAGES 183-195 and 211-216 ARE RELEVANT)
- *N. Sobolev et al., (2007), The Amount of Recycled Crust in Sources of Mantle-Derived Melts. Science 316, pp. 412 - 417
- Wilson, Igneous Petrogenesis, Unwin Hyman, London, 466 pp, 1994.
Lecture Ten
S A Gibson
- Campbell, I. & Griffiths, R.W., 1990. Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood-basalts. Earth Planet Sci. Letts. 99, 79-83.
- Campbell, I. 2005. Large Igneous provinces and the mantle plume hypothesis. Elements, 1, 265-269.
- Farnetani, C. & Richards, M.A., 1994. Numerical investigations of the mantle plume initaiation model for flood basalt events. Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 13813-13833.
- Hill, R.I., Campbell, I.H., Davies, G. F., Griffiths R.W., 1992 Mantle Plumes and Continental Tectonics. Science, 256, 5054 186-193
- Lee, C.A., Luffi P., Hoink, T., Li, J. Dasgupta, R. & Hernlund, J. 2010. Upside-down differentiation and generation of a `primordial' lower mantle. Nature 463, 930-933,
- *Richards, M.A., Duncan, R.A., and Courtillot, V.E., 1989, Flood basalts and hot-spot tracks: plume heads and tails: Science, v. 246, p. 103.
- *Sobolev, S.V., et al. 2011, Linking mantle plumes, large igneous provinces and environmental catastrophes: Nature, v. 477, no. 7364, p. 312-316, doi: 10.1038/nature10385.
- *Steinberger , B. & Torsvik, T.H., 2012. A geodynamic model of plumes from the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces. G-Cubed 13, doi:10.1029/2011GC003808
- Thompson, R.N. & Gibson, S.A., 1991. Subcontinental mantle plumes, hot spots and preexisting thinspots. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 148, 973-977.
- *White, R. S. & McKenzie, D. P. 1989. Magmatism at rift zones: The generation of volcanic continental margins and flood basalts. Journal of Geophysical Research, *94*, 7685--7729.
Lecture Eleven
S A Gibson
- Bryan SE, Riley TR, Jerram DA, Leat PT, Stephens CJ (2002) Silicic volcanism: an undervalued component of large igneous provinces and volcanic rifted margins. In: Menzies MA, Klemperer SL, Ebinger CJ, Baker J (eds) Magmatic Rifted Margins. Geological Society of America Special Paper 362: 99-120.
- *Gallagher, K. & Hawkesworth C.J., 1992. Dehydration melting and the generation of continental flood basalts. Nature 358, 57-59.
- *Gibson, S.A., Thompson, R.N., Day, J.A. 2006. Timescales and mechanisms of plume-lithosphere interactions: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and geochemistry of alkaline igneous rocks from the Paraná--Etendeka large igneous province. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 251, 1-17.
- Thompson, R.N., Morrison, M.A., Dickin, A.P., Gibson, I.L. and Harmon R.S. (1986), Two Contrasting Styles of Interaction Between Basic Magmas And Continental Crust in the British Tertiary Volcanic Province, J. Geophys. Res., 91(B6), 5985--5997
- *Ridley, V.A. & Richards, M.A. (2010). Deep crustal structure beneath large igneous provinces and the petrologic evolution of flood basalts. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 11, doi:10.1029/2009GC002935
Lecture Twelve
General Reference reading for T J B Holland's section
Philpotts & Ague. (2008) Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Cambridge University Press (2nd ed).
T J B Holland
- Zen, E-an. 1966. Bulletin, U.S. Geol. Surv. Vol. 1225. 56pp (a moderately exhaustive treatment)
Lectures Thirteen & Fourteen
T J B Holland
- Droop (1981). Alpine metamorphism of pelitic schists in the south east Tauern Window, Austria. Schweiz Min und Pet Mitt 61, 237-273.
- Droop & Harte. (1995) The effect of Mn on the phase relations of medium-grade pelites. J Petrol 36, 1549-1578
- Mahar et al. (1997) The effect of Mn on mineral stability in metapelites. J. Metamorphic Geology, 15, 223-238.
- Vance & Holland. (1993) A detailed isotopic and petrological study of a single garnet from the Gassetts schist, Vermont. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 114, 101-118.
Lecture Fifteen
T J B Holland
- Baker J and Matthews A (1994) Textural and isotopic development of marble assemblages during the Barrovian-style M2 metamorphic event, Naxos, Greece. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 116, 130-144.
- Rice J.M. (1977) Progressive metamorphism of impure dolomitic limestone in the Marysville Aureole, Montana. American Journal of Science, 277, 1-24.
- Greenwood, H.J. (1975) Buffering of pore fluids by metamorphic reactions. American Journal of Science, 275, 573-594. (simple no-infiltration calculations.Note that these do not allow for fixed porosity)
- Trommsdorff V. (1972) Change in T-X during metamorphism of siliceous dolomite rocks of the central Alps. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen 52, 567-571.
Lecture Sixteen
T J B Holland
- Powell, R. & Holland, T.J.B. (1994) Optimal geothermometry and geobarometry. American Mineralogist, 79, 120-133
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