Igneous and metamorphic petrology represent two fundamental branches of geological science that elucidate the formation, transformation, and evolution of Earth’s solid materials. Igneous petrology ...

The foundational era -- 1. Breath-pipes and ignivomous mountains--early concepts of volcanism -- 2. Basaltes prismatiques--lava, columnar basalt, and ancient volcanoes -- 3. Fire or water?--the debate ...

Kris Wang is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, where he is studying geosciences with a focus on volcanology and igneous petrology. Wang is ...

Welcome to Earth Science Week, everyone! Why not start off with a bang? At the end of last week, there was some buzz in the geoblogosphere and Twitter about a new paper in Nature that claims to have ...

Introduction -- Physical properties of magma -- Intrusion of magma -- Forms of igneous bodies -- Cooling of igneous bodies and other diffusion processes -- Classification of igneous rocks -- ...

Chad Deering is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences at Michigan Technological University. His research focuses on igneous petrology, volcanology, ...

(1) THE appearance of a revised edition of Hatch and Wells's “Petrology of the Igneous Rocks” is a matter of interest to British petrologists, since this has long been a standard text-book in British ...