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Title: SIMULATING THE EARTH
EXPERIMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY
By: J.R. Holloway, Bernard James Wood
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0044452551
ISBN 13: 9780044452553
Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS GROUP
Pub. date: 31 October, 1988
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Pages: 208
Description: An introduction to experimental geochemistry and petrology intended to stimulate earth scientists to further experimentation. With the use of case histories, the authors explain the value of experiments, the nature of the work that can be done and the prevailing problems and limitations.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 28 black & white illustrations, biography
Publication: Netherlands
Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Returns: Non-returnable
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