Simulating the Earth

1. Front Matter

   Pages iii-ix

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2. The scope

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   Pages 1-6

3. The good experiment

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   Pages 7-17

4. The machines

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   Pages 18-47

5. Metamorphic experiments on solid-solid reactions

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   Pages 48-67

6. Metamorphic experiments on solid-fluid reactions

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   Pages 68-90

7. Just fluids

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   Pages 91-104

8. Igneous experiments on melts and crystals

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   Pages 105-132

9. Igneous experiments on melts and fluids

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   Pages 133-142

10. Physical properties of Earth materials

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    Pages 143-168

11. Back Matter

    Pages 169-196

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This is a book about the why and how of doing experiments on rocks, minerals, magmas, and fluids. It could have as logically been subtitled "Experimental petrology" as "Experimental geochemistry," but we chose geochemistry to emphasize the broad and overlapping nature of current experimental work. We have tried to aim the book at a general readership which we hope will include advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and anyone else interested in learning something about experimental petrology. Although we hope there will be something of interest for the practicing experimentalist, our aim is at the non-experimentalist interested in learning why experiments are useful, what kind of experiments can be done, and what some of the major problems and limitations are and how they can best be avoided. The result of a journey through this book should be an ability to evaluate published experimental work critically and a knowledge of the kinds of problems an experimentalist might be able to help solve. Some details of experimental technique are included in the Appendix for those readers who want to "get their hands dirty. " Indeed, one of our main incentives for writing this book was to try to encourage more petrologists and geochemists to become experimentalists. In our pedagogical approach we have chosen to discuss a small number of case histories as illustrations of principles and techniques. We have tried to select studies we regard as well executed.

• chemistry
• crystal growth
• geochemistry
• growth
• mineral
• petrology
• solid solution

• Arizona State University, USA

  J. R. Holloway

• Northwestern University, USA

  B. J. Wood

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