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Diffusion, Atomic Ordering, and Mass Transport: Selected Topics in Geochemistry

Diffusion, Atomic Ordering, and Mass Transport: Selected Topics in Geochemistry

Abel, F.
Brown, W. L.
Ganguly, Jibamitra

Paperback

Series: Advances in Physical Geochemistry, Book 8

GeologyPhysics

ISBN10: 1461390214
ISBN13: 9781461390213
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jan 21 2012
Pages: 567
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
One of the fundamental objectives of physical geochemistry is to understand the evolution of geochemical systems from microscopic to regional and global scales. At present there seems to be a general recognition of the fact that internal properties of minerals record important aspects of the evolutionary history of their host rocks which may be unraveled by very fine scale observations. A major focus in the development of geochemical research in the last thirty years has been the application of classical thermodynamics to reconstruct the conditions at which the states of quenched mineralogical properties of rocks have equilibrated during the course of their evolution. While these works have funda- mentally influenced our understanding ofthe physico-chemical history ofrocks, in recent years petrologists, mineralogists, and geochemists have been making greater efforts towards the application of kinetic theories in order to develop a better appreciation of the temporal details of geochemical processes. The present volume brings together a variety of current research on transport in systems of geochemical interest from atomic to outcrop scales. A major theme is atomic migration or diffusion, and its various manifestations on microscopic and macroscopic scales. Transport in the solid state is controlled by diffusion and is responsible for the states of atomic ordering and relaxation of composi- tional zoning in minerals, development of compositional zoning during cooling, exsolution lamellae, and creep.

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