Volume 24 of Reviews in Mineralogy attempted to bring together the basic data and fundamental theoretical constraints on magmatic processes with applications to specific problems in igneous petrology. The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) sponsored the short course on "Modern Methods of Igneous Petrolgy: Understanding Magmatic Processes" at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco, California in December 1990. It was organized by the editors, Jim Nicholls and Kelly Russell, and presented by the authors of this volume to about 80 participants in conjunction with the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

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• Foreword
• Preface
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• CHAPTER 1. PRINCIPLES OF THERMODYNAMIC MODELING OF IGNEOUS PROCESSES
• CHAPTER 2. THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF SILICATE LIQUIDS WITH EMPHASIS ON DENSITY, THERMAL EXPANSION AND COMPRESSIBILITY
• CHAPTER 3. SIMULATION OF IGNEOUS DIFFERENTIATION PROCESSES
• CHAPTER 4. THE MATHEMATICS OF FLUID FLOW AND A SIMPLE APPLICATION TO PROBLEMS OF MAGMA TRANSPORT
• CHAPTER 5. PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE EVOLUTION OF MAGMAS
• CHAPTER 6. MAGMA MIXING PROCESSES: INSIGHTS AND CONSTRAINTS FROM THERMODYNAMIC CALCULATIONS
• CHAPTER 7. THE EFFECT OF OXYGEN FUGACITY ON THE REDOX STATE OF NATURAL LIQUIDS AND THEIR CRYSTALLIZING PHASES
• CHAPTER 8. DYNAMICS OF ERUPTIVE PHENOMENA
• CHAPTER 9. MELT FRACTION DIAGRAMS: THE LINK BETWEEN CHEMICAL AND TRANSPORT MODELS
• CHAPTER 10. TEXTURAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE KINETICS OF CRYSTALLIZATION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS