Equilibrium and Kinetics in Contact Metamorphism

With the new global tectonics approach in the Earth Sciences, the quan­ titative aspects of the dynamics of rock-forming processes came into focus: geologists are no longer satisfied knowing the pressure-tempera­ ture conditions of the formation of a metamorphic rock or of the emplace­ ment of a magmatic body, but instead would like to learn the time history of these rocks as well, i. e. , derive ...