"Petrology: New Perspectives and Applications" ed. by Ali Ismail Al-Juboury

This volume is designed for advanced graduate courses and professionals in petrology. The book includes eight chapters that are focused on the recent advances and application of modern petrologic and geochemical methods for the understanding of igneous, metamorphic and even sedimentary rocks.

Research studies contained in this volume provide an overview of application of modern petrologic techniques to rocks of diverse origins. They reflect a wide variety of settings (from South America to the Far East, and from Africa to Central Asia) as well as ages ranging from late Precambrian to late Cenozoic, with several on Mesozoic/Cenozoic volcanism.

Contents
Preface
1 Secular Evolution of Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Central North China Craton: Implication from Basaltic Rocks and Their Xenoliths
2 Petrological and Geochemical Characteristics of Mafic Granulites Associated with Alkaline Rocks in the Pan-African Dahomeyide Suture Zone, Southeastern Ghana
3 Petrogenesis and Tectono-Magmatic Setting of Meso-Cenozoic Magmatism in Azerbaijan Province, Northwestern Iran
4 Petrologic Study of Explosive Pyroclastic Eruption Stage in Shirataka Volcano, NE Japan: Synchronized Eruption of Multiple Magma Chambers
5 Late to Post-Orogenic Brasiliano-Pan-African Volcano-Sedimentary Basins in the Dom Feliciano Belt, Southernmost Brazil
6 Allchar Deposit in Republic of Macedonia – Petrology and Age Determination
7 A Combined Petrological-Geochemical Study of the Paleozoic Successions of Iraq
8 Organic Petrology: An Overview