Table of Contents

List of Contributors.

Introduction to the Timescales of Magmatic Processes (Anthony Dosseto, Simon P. Turner, Fidel Costa and James A. Van Orman).

1 Extinct Radionuclides and the Earliest Differentiation of the Earth and Moon (G. Caro and T. Kleine).

2 Diffusion Constraints on Rates of Melt Production in the Mantle (James A. Van Orman and Alberto E. Saal).

3 Melt Production in the Mantle: Constraints from U-series (Bernard Bourdon and Tim Elliott).

4 Formulations for Simulating the Multiscale Physics of Magma Ascent (Craig O'Neill and Marc Spiegelman).

5 Melt Transport from the Mantle to the Crust – Uranium-Series Isotopes (Simon P. Turner and Bernard Bourdon).

6 Rates of Magma Ascent: Constraints from Mantle-Derived Xenoliths (Suzanne Y. O'Reilly and W.L. Griffin).

7 Time Constraints from Chemical Equilibration in Magmatic Crystals (Fidel Costa and Daniel Morgan).

8 Magma Cooling and Differentiation – Uranium-series Isotopes (Anthony Dosseto and Simon P. Turner).

9 Defining Geochemical Signatures and Timescales of Melting Processes in the Crust: An Experimental Tale of Melt Segregation, Migration and Emplacement (Tracy Rushmer and Kurt Knesel).

10 Timescales Associated with Large Silicic Magma Bodies (Olivier Bachmann).

11 Timescales of Magma Degassing (Kim Berlo, James E. Gardner and Jonathan D. Blundy).

Index.

Colour plates.

About the Author

Anthony Dosseto did his PhD at the Institut de Physique duGlobe de Paris in France before taking up a postdoctoral positionat Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia in 2004. In 2009, hemoved to the Univesity of Wollongong, Australia and in 2010 wasawarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Simon P. Turner obtained his PhD at the University ofAdelaide in 1991. Currently he holds an ARC Professorial Fellowshipin the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at MacquarieUniversity, Sydney, Australia where he specializes in theapplication of U-series isotopes to constraining the time scales ofEarth processes with particular emphasis on subduction zonemagmatism. James A. Van Orman is an Associate Professor inGeological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Hewas awarded a PhD in geochemistry at MIT and undertook postdoctoralresearch in mineral physics and geochemistry at the CarnegieInstitution of Washington. His research is centered ondiffusion in minerals and melts, with current interests in deepplanetary rheology, chemical exchange processes, andgeochronology.

Reviews

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