Topics in Igneous Petrology

Foreword.- Acknowledgments.- List of contributors.- 1. A review of the radiometric data placing the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend at 50Ma; placing constraints on hypotheses concerning the origin of the Hawaiian-Emperor Volcanic chain.- 2. Giant plagioclase basalt from northern part of Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, Central India.- 3. Occurrence and origin of scapolite in the Neoproterozoic Lufilian-Zambezi belt, Zambia: Evidence/role of brine-rich fluid infiltration during regional metamorphism.- 4. New seismic evidence for the origin of arc and back-arc magmas.- 5. Polybaric evolution of the volcanic rocks at Gabal Nuqara, northeastern desert, Egypt.- 6. Geochemical and geochronological data from charnockites and anorthosites from India's Kodaikanal-Palani Massif, Southern Granulite Terrain, India.- 7. Petrological evolution and emplacement of Siwana and Jalor Ring Complexes of Malani Igneous Suite, Northwestern Peninsular India.- 8. Deccan Traps Flood Basalt Province: an Evaluation of the Thermochemical Plume Model.- 9. Recycling of flow-top breccia crusts into molten interiors of flood basalt lava flows: Field and geochemical evidence from Deccan Traps.- 10. Upper Triassic Karmutsen formation of Western Canada and Alaska: A plume-generated oceanic plateau formed along a mid-ocean ridge nucleated on a late Paleozoic active margin.- 11. Mineral compositions in the Deccan igneous rocks of India; an overview.- 12. The intra-oceanic Barren Island and Narcondam arc volcanoes, Andaman Sea: Implications for subduction inputs and crustal overprint of a depleted mantle source.- 13. Geology, petrology and geochemistry of the volcanic rocks of the Axum area, northern Ethiopia.- 14. Textural fingerprints of magmatic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks associated with the Naga Hills Ophiolite, Northeast India.- 15. Geological and geochemical studies of Kolekole cinder cone, Southwest Rift Zone, East Maui, Hawaii.- 16. Petrogenesis of flood basalts of the Narsingpur-Harrai-Amarwara-Lakhnadon section of Eastern Deccan Province, India.- 17. Age and origin of the Chilka anorthosites, Eastern Ghats, India: Implications for massif anorthosite petrogenesis and break-up of Rodinia.- 18. Kimberlites, supercontinents and deep Earth dynamics: Mid-Proterozoic India in Rodinia.- Subject Index