InhaltsangabeChemical Properties and Isotope Systematics: Chemical Properties of Rb and Sr; Isotope Systematics of Rb and Sr; The Rb-Sr Method of Dating; Fitting of Isochrons; The Sm-Nd Method of Dating; The Epsilon Notation; Mixture of 2 Components; The U-Pb Methods of Dating; Oxygen Isotope Composition; Fractional Crystallization of Magma; Assimilation and Fractional Crystallization; Meteorites and the Isotope Evolution of Terrestrial Sr; Summary and Preview.- The Origin of Volcanic Rocks in the Oceans: Magma Formation in the Mantle; Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt, Atlantic Ocean; Iceland; Canary Islands; Islands of the Atlantic Ocean; Mantle Components and Plumes; MORBs of the Pacific Ocean; Islands of the East Pacific Ocean; Seamounts of the East Pacific Ocean; The Island Chains of Polynesia; The Ontong Java and Manihiki Plateaus; The Hawaiian Islands and Emperor Seamounts; Samoan Islands, Western Pacific; MORBs of the Indian Ocean; Kerguelen and Heard Islands; Oceanic Islands of the Indian Ocean; Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea; Summary - The Importance of Plumes.- Subduction Zones in the Oceans: Petrogenetic Models; The Mariana Island Arc in the Pacific Ocean; The Aleutian Islands; Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands; The Japanese Islands; Tonga-Kermadec-New Zealand; The Sunda Islands of Indonesia; Philippine Islands and the Luzon Arc; Other Oceanic Island Arcs in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; The Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea; Mesozoic Basalt, Caribbean Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Summary - Petrogenesis in Subduction Zones.- The Compressive Margin of the American Continents: Andes of South America; Rhyolites and Ignimbrites of Central America and Mexico; Rhyolites and Ignimbrites of California; Silicic Volcanic Rocks of the Southwestern USA; Mafic Volcanic Rocks, Southwestern USA; The Cascade Range of the Northwestern USA; Cenozoic Volcanic Rocks of the Oregon Plateau; Summary - The Tertiary Ignimbritesof the Americas.- Continental Flood Basalt Provinces: Petrogenesis of Flood Basalts; Columbia River Basalt, USA; Snake River Plain and Yellowstone Caldera; North Atlantic Igneous Province; Deccan Plateau, India; Rajmahal Plateau, Northeastern India; The South Atlantic Igneous Province; The Brazil-West Africa Connection; The Northeastern Brazil-Liberia Connection; Magmatic Activity along the Atlantic Coast of North America; The South Africa-Antarctica Connection; Jurassic Tholeiites of the Transarctic Mountains; The Siberian Flood-Basalt Province; Cenozoic Basals of Eastern China; Flood Basalts of Ethiopia and Yemen; Continental Basalts of Arabia; Summary - Plumes Dominate the Mantle.- Alkalic Igneous Rocks on the Continents: East African Rift System; The Potassic Rocks of the Western Rift of East Africa; Volcanic Activity of North-Central Africa; Intraplate Alkaline Plutons of Africa; Mediterranean Region; Alkali-Rich Volcanic Rocks of Central Europe; Scandinavia; Kola Peninsula, Russia; Western North America; Ultramafic Inclusions, Western North America; Australia; Antarctica; Summary - The Case for Mantle Metasomatism.- Differentiated Gabbroic Intrusives: Midcontinent Rift System of North America; Muskox Intrusion and the Coppermine Basalt, NWT, Canada; Diabase Dikes and Sills of the Canadian Precambrian Shield; Stillwater Complex, Montana; Kiglapait Intrusion, Labrador; Caledonian Gabbros of Northeast Scotland; Rhum Intrusion, Inner Hebrides, Scotland; Bushveld Complex, South Africa; Great Dyke, Zimbabwe; Mafic Intrusives of Australia; Summary - Petrogenesis in the Precambrian.- Archean Greenstone Belts and Granitic Gneisses of North America: Greenstone Belts of the Superior Craton; Mantle-Separation Dates; Isotopic Homogenization of Granitic Gneisses; The Wyoming Craton; Amitsoq Gneiss and Isua Supracrustals, West Greenland; Summary - The Origin of the Oldest Rocks.- References.- Author