Classic Papers in Igneous Petrology
Compiled from Contributions on the MSA Listserv January, 2012
Reviews
Yoder, H. S., editor, 1979, The evolution of the igneous rocks; fiftieth anniversary
perspectives: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 588 p.
Yoder, H.S., 1993, Timetable of petrology: Journal of Geological Education, v. 41, no. 5,
p. 447-489.
Foulger, G., 2009, MantlePlumes.org: Foundations of Earth Science:
http://www.mantleplumes.org/Foundations.html (January 2012)
Carroll, M.R., and Holloway, J.R., editors, 1994, Volatiles in Magmas: Washington,
D.C., Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry,
v. 30, 517 p.
Putirka, K. D., and Tepley, F.J., editors, 2008, Minerals, Inclusions and Volcanic
Processes: Washington, D.C., Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in
Mineralogy and Geochemistry, v. 69, no. 1, 674 p.
Basaltic Magma Generation
Bailey, B.E., Clough, C.T., Wright, B.A., Richey, J.E., and Wilson, G.V., 1924, Tertiary
and post-Tertiary geology of Mull, Loch Aline, and Oban: Geological Survey of
Scotland Memoir, 449 p.
Brown, G.M., 1956, The Layered Ultrabasic Rocks of Rhum, Inner Hebrides:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, ser. B, v. 240, no. 668, p.
1-53.
Green, D.H., and Ringwood, A.E.,1967, The genesis of basaltic magmas: Contributions
to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 15, no. 2, p. 103-190.
Hess, H.H., 1960, Stillwater igneous complex, Montana: A quantitative mineralogical
study: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Memoir 80, 230 p.
Irvine, T.N., Anderson, J.C.O., and Brooks, C.K., 1998, Included blocks (and blocks
within blocks) in the Skaergaard intrusion: Geologic relations and the origins of
rhythmic modally graded layers: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, no.
11, p. 1398-1447.
Irvine, T.N., 1974. Petrology of the Duke Island ultramafic complex, southeastern
Alaska: Geological Society of America Memoir 138, 240 p.
Jackson, E.D., 1961, Primary textures and mineral associations in the ultramafic zone of
the Stillwater complex, Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 358,
106 p.
Jones, W.R., Peoples, J.W., and Howland, A.L., 1960, Igneous and tectonic structures of
the Stillwater complex, Montana: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin B 1071-H, 59 p.
McBirney, A.R., and Noyes, R.M., 1979, Crystallization and layering of the Skaergaard
intrusion: Journal of Petrology, v. 20, no. 3, p. 487-554.
Nockolds, S.R., 1940, The Garabal Hill - Glen Fyne Igneous Complex: Quarterly Journal
of the Geological Society of London, v. 96, p. 451-511.
Schiffries, C.M., and Rye, D.M., 1990, Stable isotope systematics of the Bushveld
complex: I. Constraints on magmatic processes in layered intrusions. American
Journal of Science, v. 289, no. 7, p. 841 – 873.
Schiffries, C.M., and Rye, D.M., 1990, Stable isotope systematics of the Bushveld
complex: II. Constraints on hydrothermal processes in layered intrusions: American
Journal of Science, v. 290, no. 3, p 209-245.
Sun, S.S., and McDonough, W.F., 1989, Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic
basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes in Sanders, A.D., and
Norry, M.J., editors, Magmatism in the Ocean Basins: London, UK, Geological
Society of London Special Publications, vol. 42, p. 313-35.
Wager, L.R., Brown, G.M., and Wadsworth, W.J, 1960. Types of igneous cumulates.
Journal of Petrology, v. 1, no. 1, p. 73-85.
Wager, L.R., and Deer, W.A., 1939, Geological investigations in east Greenland: Part III,
The petrology of the Skaergaard Intrusion, Kangerdlugssuaq, East Greenland:
Copenhagen, Denmark, Meddelelser Om Gronland, v. 105, no. 4, 335 p.
Walker, K.R., 1969, The Palisades Sill, New Jersey: a reinvestigation: Boulder,
Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 111, 178 p.
Walker, F., 1940, Differentiation of the Palisade diabase, New Jersey: Geological Society
of America Bulletin, v. 51, no. 7, p. 1059-1105.
Yoder, H.S., and Tilley, C.R., 1962, Origin of basalt magmas: an experimental study of
natural and synthetic rock systems: Journal of Petrology, vol. 3, no. 3, p342-529.
Granitic Rocks
Bowen, N. L., 1928, The evolution of the igneous rocks: Princeton, New Jersey,
Princeton University Press, 334 p.
Brown, P.E., 1967, Major element composition of the Loch Coire migmatite complex,
Sutherland, Scotland: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 14, no. 1, p. 126.
Buddington, A.F., 1959, Granite emplacement with special reference to North America:
Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 70, no. 6, p. 671-747.
Coleman, D. S., Gray, W., and Glazner, A. F., 2004, Rethinking the emplacement and
evolution of zoned plutons: Geochronologic evidence for incremental assembly of the
Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California: Geology, v. 32, no. 5, p. 433-436.
Gilluly, J., chairman, 1948, Origin of granite: Geological Society of America Memoir 28,
139 p.
Jahns, R.H., and Burnham, C.W., 1969, Experimental studies of pegmatite genesis: I. A
model for the derivation and crystallization of granitic pegmatites: Economic
Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, vol. 64, no. 8, p
843-864.
Jahns, R.H. and Tuttle, O.F., 1963, Layered pegmatite-aplite: Mineralogical Society of
America Special Paper 1, p. 78-92.
Krauskopf, K.B., 1968, A tale of ten plutons: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.
79, no. 1, p. 1-17.
Pabst, A.R., 1928, Observations on inclusions in the granitic rocks of the Sierra Nevada:
University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 17, no. 10, p. 325386.
Tuttle, O.F. and Bowen, N.L., 1958, Origin of granite in the light of experimental studies
in the system NaAlSi3O8-KAlSi3O8- siO2-H2O: Geological Society of America
Memoir 74, 153 p.
Weaver, J.H., 1958, Utuado pluton, Puerto Rico: Geological Society of America Bulletin,
v. 69, no. 9, p. 1125-1141.
Whitney, J. A., 1988, The origin of granite: The role and source of water in the evolution
of granitic magmas: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, no. 12, p. 18861897.
Volcanic Rocks
Lipman, P.W., Christiansen, R.L., and O’Connor, J.T., 1966, A compositionally zoned
ash-flow sheet in southern Nevada: US Geological Survey Professional Paper P
0524-F, p. F1-F47.
Hildreth, W., 1981, Gradients in silicic magma chambers: implications for lithospheric
magmatism: Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, no. B11, p. 10153-10192.
Hildreth, W., and Wilson, C.J.N., 2007, Compositional zoning of the BIshop Tuff:
Journal of Petrology, v. 48, no. 5, p. 951-999.
Igneous Processes
Haskin, L.A., 1979, On rare-earth element behavior in igneous rocks in Ahrens, L.H., ed.,
Origin and Distribution of the Elements: New York, New York, Physics and
Chemistry of the Earth, v. 11, p. 175-189.
DePaolo, D.J., 1981, Trace element and isotopic effects of combined wallrock
assimilation and fractional crystallization: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 53,
no. 2, p. 189-202.
Haskin, L.A., and Paster, T.P., 1979, Geochemistry and mineralogy of the rare earths
in Gschneidner, K.A., and Eyring, L., editors, Handbook on the Physics and
Chemistry of Rare Earths: Amsterdam, Netherlands, North-Holland Publishing
Company, p. 1- 80.
O'Hara, M.J., and Mathews, R.E., 1981, Geochemical evolution in an advancing,
periodically replenished, periodically tapped, continuously fractionated magma
chamber: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 138, p. 237-277.