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This book reviews current ideas explaining the formation of granite in terms of melting, segregation, ascent and emplacement. It introduces an alternative hypothesis that granites are endogenic in that they essentially form and remain at melting sites in the middle--upper crust under conditions of abnormally high heat flow. The book highlights results of Chinese research over the last 30 years in English for the first time.

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Author:   Guo-Neng Chen ,  Rodney Grapes
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.471kg
ISBN:  

9789048174690

ISBN 10:   9048174694
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   19 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Rock genesis and its relationship to geosystems.- 1.2 Granites, migmatites and granite problems.- 2 Crustal melting: experiments and conditions.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Mineral melting.- 2.3 Rock melting – experimental evidence.- 2.4 Structure and composition of the crust.- 2.5 Water in the crust.- 2.6 Crustal heat and partial melting.- 3. In-situ melting and intracrustal convection: granite magma layers.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Crustal melting I: Initial melting and partial melt layer.- 3.3 Crustal melting II: Convection and formation of magma layer.- 3.4 Compositional variation within magma layer.- 3.5 Magma layer, granite layer and granite bodies.- 3.6 MI fluctuation (remelting) and granite sequence.- 3.7 Conclusion.- 4. Geological evidence for in-situ melting origin of granite layers.- 4.1 Migmatite to granite.- 4.2 Contact metamorphism.- 4.3 Xenoliths and mafic enclaves.- 4.4 Granite layer and granite exposures.- 4.5 Fluctuation of MI and downward younging granite sequence.- 5. Differentiation of magma layer: geochemical considerations.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Compositional variation.- 5.3 Strontium isotopes.- 5.4 Oxygen isotopes.- 5.5 Rare earth elements.- 5.6 Summary.- 6. Mineralisation related to in-situ granite formation.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Source of ore-forming elements.- 6.3 Formation and evolution of ore-bearing fluid.- 6.4 Types of mineral deposits.- 6.5 Age relationships.- 6.6 Temperature distribution.- 6.7 Formation and distribution of hydrothermal mineral deposits.- 6.8 Mineralised depth horizons.- 6.9 Mineralisation during elevated crustal temperatures.- 6.10 Mineralisation during granite remelting.- 6.11 Patterns of element redistribution and element fields.- 6.12 Summary.- 7. Heat source for crustal magma layers: tectonic models.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Crustal temperature disturbance related to plate convergence.- 7.3 Subduction and granite formation: western Pacific continental margin.-7.4 Continental collision and granite formation: Tethys Belt.- 7.5 Concluding statement.- 8. Geological effects of crystallisation of a crustal granite magma layer: SE China.- 8.1 Fault-block basins.- 8.2. Volcanism.- 9. Material and element cycling of the continental crust and summary.- 9.1. Rock cycling of continental material.- 9.2. Element cycling of the continental crust.- 9.3. Overview.- References.- Appendix 1 map of SE China.- Appendix 2 Results of experimental rock melting.- Index 

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Aus den Rezensionen: ... Die Autoren richten sich mit ihrem Buch an alle Geologen, Geophysiker, Geochemiker, Mineralogen, Lagerstattenkundler, Wirtschaftsgeologen und Studenten der genannten Fachrichtungen. ... Das Buch sollte auf jeden Fall in jeder geowissenschaftlichen Bibliothek oder Universitatsbibliothek (als Diskussionsvorlage) zur Verfugung stehen. (C. SCHMITT-RIEGRAF, in: Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie Teil II, 2008, Issue 5-6, S. 849 ff.)

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