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MIT OpenCourseWare
Advanced Igneous Petrology
- Instructor
- Prof. Timothy Grove
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 8 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.490 Advanced Igneous Petrology, Fall 2005, Prof. Timothy Grove — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Labs
8 files
- Rock-forming Minerals: Pyroxene and Olivine Download
- Rock-forming Minerals: Feldspars, Amphiboles, and Sheet Silicates Download
- Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts (MORB) Download
- Undersaturated Mafic Magmas Download
- Magma Mixing Download
- Sierra Nevadas: Calc-Alkaline Plutonic Rocks Download
- Stillwater Layered Igneous Intrusion Download
- Meteorites Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Rock-forming Minerals: Pyroxenes
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Lecture 3: Rock-forming Minerals: Pyriboles
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Lecture 4: Rock-forming Minerals: Feldspars
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Lecture 5: Classification, Chemical Variations and Graphical Representations
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Lecture 6: Fractional Crystallizationa and Magma Mixing in Mid Ocean Ridge Basalts (MORB)
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Lecture 7: Compositional Systematics in MORB and Mantle Melting
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Lecture 8: MORB Mantle Melts - Phase Equilibrium Controls on Liquid Compositions
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Lecture 9: MORB Mantle Melts - Phase Equilibrium Controls on Solid Compositions
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Lecture 10: Undersaturated Magmas High K Continental
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Lecture 11: Kimberlites and Carbonatites, Untramafic Magmas, Komatiites
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Lecture 12: Magma Mixing and Crustal Assimilation
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Lecture 13: Mafic Systems
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Lecture 14: Wet vs. Dry Fractional Crystallization
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Lecture 15: The Significance of Igneous Rock Series
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Lecture 16: Hydrous Differentiation - The Role of Amphibole
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Lecture 17: Hydrous Mantle Melting - Phase Equilibrium Controls on Liquid Compositions
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Lecture 18: Felsic Magmas - Granites Phase Relations
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Lecture 19: Large Silicic Magmatic Systems
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Lecture 20: Hawaii and Iceland
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Lecture 21: CFBs (Continental Flood Basalts) - Compositional Diversity of Flood Basalt Magmas
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Lecture 22: CFBs - Phase Equilibrium Controls on their Mantle Sources
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Lecture 23: Bushveld, Stillwater, Skaergaard
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Lecture 24: Anorthosites
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Lecture 25: Lunar Highland and Maria
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Lecture 26: Howardites, Eucrites and Diogenites
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Timothy Grove, 12.490 Advanced Igneous Petrology, Fall 2005.
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