TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiii
Preface xv THE FOUNDATIONAL ERA CHAPTER 1: Breath-Pipes and Ignivomous Mountains--Early Concepts of Volcanism 3
CHAPTER 2: Basaltes Prismatiques--Lava, Columnar Basalt, and Ancient Volcanoes 16
CHAPTER 3: Fire or Water?--The Debate over the Origin of Basalt 34
CHAPTER 4: The "Insolently Triumphant Dogma"--The Collapse of the Concept of Aqueous Basalt 50
CHAPTER 5: Subterraneous Lava--The Recognition of Intrusive Granite 62
THE PRIMITIVE ERA CHAPTER 6: Wet or Dry?--The Origin of Granite 81
CHAPTER 7: Classes and Orders--Petrography and Classification in the Early Nineteenth Century 104
CHAPTER 8: Basalt and Trachyte--Early Theories of Diversity 125
THE MICROSCOPE ERA CHAPTER 9: Minute Objects, Great Conclusions--The Rise of Microscopic Petrography 143
CHAPTER 10: Basalt or Melaphyre?--Igneous Rocks in Time 167
CHAPTER 11: Provinces and Plugs--Igneous Rocks in Space 182
CHAPTER 12: Spaltung und Kerne--The Emergence of the Theory of Differentiation 199
CHAPTER 13: Physical Chemistry and Petrology--The Mechanism of Differentiation 215
CHAPTER 14: The Language of Petrology--Nomenclature and Classification 231
CHAPTER 15: Meldometers and Thermocouples--Early Experimental Petrology 264
THE EXPERIMENTAL ERA CHAPTER 16: Clearing the Mists--The Theory of Crystallization-ifferentiation 283
CHAPTER 17: An Unsurpassed Natural Laboratory--Differentiated Slls and Layered Intrusions 313
ChAPTER 18: Cone Sheets and Cauldrons--The Mechanics of Igneous Intrusion 333
CHAPTER 19: Magma or Emanations?--The Beginnings of the Granite Controversy 350
CHAPTER 20: Pontiffs and Soaks--The Resolution of the Granite Controversy 368
CHAPTER 21: Modes and Norms--Classification in Crisis 389
THE GEOCHEMICAL ERA CHAPTER 22: Structures and Spectra--The Geochemical Revolution in Petrology 411
CHAPTER 23: The Sea Below, the Heavens Above--The Extension of Petrology 431
CHAPTER 24: Delta and Epsilon--Stable and Radiogenic Isotopes in Igneous Petrogenesis 448
CHAPTER 25: Mathematical Modeling--Trace-Element Studies in Igneous Petrogenesis 472
CHAPTER 26: Bombs and Buffers--Experimental Petrology after Bowen 498
CHAPTER 27: Classification Salvaged?--IUGS to the Rescue 527
THE FLUID DYNAMICAL ERA CHAPTER 28: Rayleigh and Reynolds--The Fluid Dynamics of Magma Chambers 549
CHAPTER 29: Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Regained?--Cumulate Theory under Fire 578
CHAPTER 30: Past and Future--Some Concluding Remarks 602
Bibliography 615
Index of Names 675
Index of Subjects 681
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