[ { "id": "authors:apvg3-bcs30", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "apvg3-bcs30", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160122-101041952", "type": "book_section", "title": "Ultramafic and related rocks - Preface", "author": [ { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "Peter J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "P. J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "abstract": "This book was planned for advanced students, research workers, teachers in\npetrology, and enthusiastic undergraduates. It should also be of interest to\nsolid-earth geophysicists because the International Upper Mantle project has\nfocused attention on the implications of ultramafic rock studies for interpretations\nof upper mantle composition and mineralogy. The book is offered as a\nsupplement to the standard textbooks on petrology, even the most detailed of\nwhich can devote only a few pages to the origin of any specific group of rocks.\nSeveral specialized volumes which perform a similar function for granites,\ncarbonatites, basalts, and layered intrusions have been published recently,\nand these books fill a need that becomes more acute as the volume of research\nliterature increases.", "publisher": "Wiley", "publication_date": "1967" }, { "id": "authors:ekw7m-jsy21", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "ekw7m-jsy21", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160122-090100110", "type": "book_section", "title": "Mafic and Ultramafic Nodules - Introduction", "author": [ { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "P. J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "P. J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "abstract": "The great interest in the small nodules\nfound in alkalic lavas and kimberlite diatremes\nlies in the hope that they will provide\ninformation about the composition and\nmineralogy of the earth's mantle. They\nhave already been discussed by several\ncontributors, including O'Hara, Chapter\n5-IV; Dawson, 8-II and 8-V; Davidson,\n8-III; Watson, 8-IV; Upton, 9-II; and von\nEckermann, 9-IV. The nodules have been\ninterpreted as representative of primary\nmantle material; as residual mantle material\nafter extraction of basalt; as xenoliths\npicked up within the earth's crust; as cumulates\nfrom primary basaltic magma formed\nas bottom cumulates in temporary reservoirs,\nor formed marginally during upward\nflow.", "publisher": "Wiley", "publication_date": "1967" }, { "id": "authors:q89th-6dj41", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "q89th-6dj41", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160122-084657548", "type": "book_section", "title": "Ultramafic and Ultrabasic Rocks", "author": [ { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "P. J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "P. J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "abstract": "This chapter outlines the petrography of\nultramafic and ultrabasic rocks, and presents\na preliminary classification of the\npetrological associations in which they\noccur. Many of the associations, but not all\nof them, are described in detail in the following\nchapters. Within the classification\nthere is a guide to the chapters dealing\nwith the various associations, and for those\nassociations inadequately covered in this\nvolume reference is made to one or more\nreview papers. This is followed by O'Hara's\naccount of the mineral facies of ultrabasic\nrocks.", "publisher": "Wiley", "publication_date": "1967" }, { "id": "authors:1bs17-6kf09", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "1bs17-6kf09", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160122-085229253", "type": "book_section", "title": "Experimental Studies in the System CaO-MgO-SiO_2-H_2O", "author": [ { "family_name": "Franz", "given_name": "G. W.", "clpid": "Franz-G-W" }, { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "P. J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "P. J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "abstract": "The field evidence that many carbonatites\nare intrusive and possibly magmatic\nwas incompatible with available experimental\ndata until Wyllie and Tuttle (1960)\ndemonstrated that liquids in the system\nCaO-CO_2-H2_O precipitate calcite at temperatures\ndown to 640\u00b0C through a wide\npressure range. The problem of the origin\nof carbonatites has since been examined\nby studying the phase relationships in systems\ncontaining the \"synthetic carbonatite\nmagma\" and silicate minerals occurring in\nrocks associated with carbonatites. The increasing\nawareness in recent years of possible\ngenetic connections between carbonatites\nand kimberlites (von Eckermann,\n1948, 1958; Saether, 1957; Dawson, 1964;\nGarson, 1962; Davidson, 1964; Wyllie,\n1967) led to the selection of forsterite as a\nsuitable additional mineral component,\ngiving the five-component system CaO-MgO-\nSiO_2-CO_2-H_2O. Sections through this\nsystem have been investigated by Franz\n(1965).", "publisher": "Wiley", "publication_date": "1967" }, { "id": "authors:x5xk0-90292", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "x5xk0-90292", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160122-090626312", "type": "book_section", "title": "Petrogenesis of Ultramafic and Ultrabasic Rocks - Review", "author": [ { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "P. J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Wyllie", "given_name": "P. J.", "clpid": "Wyllie-P-J" } ], "abstract": "The introductions to each of the preceding\nchapters (Sections I) have reviewed the conclusions reached, and provided\nsome cross references to other chapters.\nThis final contribution reviews in general\nand historical terms some of the problems of the petrogenesis of ultramafic and ultrabasic\nrocks. The greater part of the review\ndeals with the petrogenesis of the alpine-type\nultramafic rocks, because these have\nserved as a focus of controversy for many\nyears. The variety of ultramafic rock associations\nin different tectonic environments,\nand of the processes involved in\ntheir formation, have been emphasized\nthroughout the book. Both are important\nin considering petrogenesis. Although interpretation\nof processes may require extensive\nstudy, rock associations are more\neasily distinguished; but the distinctions\nhave not always been made. Hess (1955,\np. 394) drew attention to this with the following\nstatement: \"Gross errors have probably\nresulted from applying conclusions\ndrawn from facts related to mica peridotites\nto alpine peridotites and vice versa.\nIf mica peridotite had been called humpty-dumptyite,\nthese probably would not have\narisen.\"", "publisher": "Wiley", "publication_date": "1967" } ]