Geological melts

Table of Contents:

1 The Short-Range Order (SRO) and Structure
2 From Short to Medium Range Order in Glasses and Melts by Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy
3 Link between Medium and Long-range Order and Macroscopic Properties of Silicate Glasses and Melts
4 Topology and Rigidity of Silicate Melts and Glasses
5 Molecular Simulations of Oxide and Silicate Melts and Glasses
6 Mechanical Properties of Oxide Glasses
7 Diffusion in Melts and Magmas
8 Silicate Melt Thermochemistry and the Redox State of Magmas
9 Nucleation, Growth, and Crystallization in Oxide Glass-formers. A Current Perspective
10 Thermodynamics of Multi-component Gas–Melt Equilibrium in Magmas: Theory, Models, and Applications
11 High Pressure Melts
12 Volatile-bearing Partial Melts in the Lithospheric and Sub-Lithospheric Mantle on Earth and Other Rocky Planets
13 Decrypting Magma Mixing in Igneous Systems
14 Magma / Suspension Rheology
15 Strain Localization in Magmas
16 Magma Fragmentation
17 Hot Sintering of Melts, Glasses and Magmas
18 Models for Viscosity of Geological Melts
19 Non-terrestrial Melts, Magmas and Glasses
20 Frictional Melting in Magma and Lava
21 Non-Magmatic Glasses
22 Silicate Glasses and Their Impact on Humanity
23 Glass as a State of Matter—The “newer” Glass Families from Organic, Metallic, Ionic to Non-silicate Oxide and Non-oxide Glasses

Volume 87 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry covers fundamental aspects of the nature of silicate melts and the implications for the systems in which they participate, both technological and natural. The contents of this volume may perhaps best be summarized as structure – properties – dynamics. The volume contains syntheses of short and medium range order, structure-property relationships, and computation-based simulations of melt structure.

It continues with analyses of the properties (mechanical, diffusive, thermochemical, redox, nucleation, rheological) of melts. The dynamic behavior of melts in magmatic and volcanic systems, is then treated in the context of their behavior in magma mixing, strain localization, frictional melting, magmatic fragmentation, and hot sintering. Finally, the non-magmatic, extraterrestrial and prehistoric roles of melt and glass are presented in their respective contexts