Igneous petrology

McBirney, A. R. (1984). Igneous Petrology. San Francisco Freeman Cooper. 

Maaloe, S., 1985. Principles of Igneous Petrology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo, 374 pp. 

K. V. Cashman, in Reviews in Mineralogy, vol. 24, Methods of Igneous Petrology, eds. J. Nicholls andj. K. Russell. Washington. Mineralogical Society of America, p. 259... 

Carmichael, L, Turner, F.J., Verhoogen, J., 1974. Igneous Petrology. MacGraw-Hill, New York, p. 739. 

An excellent example of the use of discriminant analysis in igneous petrology is found in the work of J.A. Pearce (1976), who employed this technique in an attempt to classify basalts on the basis of their major element chemistry (see also Section 5.2.2). The study is based upon a collection of recent basalts taken from six different tectonic environments — ocean-floor basalts, tsland-arc tholeiites, calc-alkaline basalts, shoshonites, ocean-island basalts and continental basalts. The objective of the study was to see if there is a relationship between major element chemistry and tectonic setting. 

Carmichael ISE, Turner FJ, Verhoogen J. In Rrauskopf K, ed. Igneous Petrology. McGraw-Hill International Series in the Earth and Planetary Sciences. New York McGraw-Hill, 1974. 

The immobile nature of the lanthanides is one of the properties responsible for their extensive use in igneous petrology. Many elements are mobile and readily redistributed under conditions of low-temperature alteration, but the relative immobility of the lanthanides makes them of particular use in investigating, for example, Archean volcanic rocks, which may have suffered profound alteration. This property... 

Hall, A. 1996. Igneous Petrology. Second Edition. Longman Group Ltd, Harlow, Essex. 

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