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Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
Part I: Solution Properties of Silicate Minerals
1 Ideal Solutions (PDF)
2 Non-ideal Solutions (PDF)
3-4 Alkali and Plagioclase Feldspars Solution Models (PDF 1)

(PDF 2)
5 Introduction to Pyroxene Thermometry

Diopside - Enstatite
(PDF)
6 Thermodynamic Properties of Multi-site Mineral Solutions - Homogeneous Equilibria
7 Pyroxene Thermometry II, The Quad (PDF)
8-9 Spinels, Rhombohedral Oxides and T-ƒO2 Relations
Part II: Heterogeneous Equilibria in Geologic Systems
10 Heterogeneous Equilibria in Two- and Three-component Systems (PDF)
11 Liquidus Diagrams - Liquidus Boundaries (PDF)
12 Liquidus Diagrams - Degeneracies and Natural Examples (PDF)
13 Liquidus Diagrams - Thermodynamic Controls on Boundaries (PDF)
14 Schreinemaker's Analysis - Multi-component Systems (PDF)
15 Choosing Components - Representations of Composition Space (PDF 1)

(PDF 2)
16 Heterogeneous Reactions - The Gibbs Method (PDF)
17 Solution Models for Silicate Melts-simple Systems
18 Solution Models for Silicate Melts-multicomponent Systems
19 Thermodynamic Models of Multicomponent Systems - MELTS
20 Mixed Volatile Equilibria P-T-XCO2-XH2O