Advanced Metamorphic Petrology Geo 523

Metamorphic rocks classification, textures, compositions, petrogenesis, and petrotectonic settings. Topics include metamorphic chemical reactions, facies, minerals chemistry, phase equilibria and ternary principal diagrams, Geothermobarometry and P-T—time paths, metamorphic mineral crystallization and recrystallization, and textural relationships in metamorphic rocks having variable protoliths and histories, metamorphism and plate tectonic.