Physics and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Geophysical and Experimental Petrological Studies of the Earth’s Interior

   • Alok K. Gupta, Mrigank Mauli Dwivedi, William S. Fyfe

   Pages 1-27

3. Modelling of Metamorphic Textures with C-Space: Evidence of Pan-African High-grade Reworking in the Eastern Ghats Belt, India

   • Pulak Sengupta, Somnath Dasgupta

   Pages 29-39

4. Orogenic Processes in Collisional Tectonics with Special Reference to the Himalayan Mountain Chain: A Review of Theoretical and Experimental Models

   • Nibir Mandal, Atin Kumar Mitra, Santanu Bose

   Pages 41-65

5. Some Remarks on Melting and Extreme Metamorphism of Crustal Rocks

   • Michael Brown, Fawna J Kothonen

   Pages 67-87

6. Closure Temperature, Cooling Age and High Temperature Thermochronology

   • Jibamitra Ganguly, Massimilano Tirone

   Pages 89-99

7. Thermobarometry Gone Astray

   • Eric J. Essene

   Pages 101-133

8. On Fluids in the Dynamic Earth

   • M. Santosh

   Pages 135-142

9. Laboratory Measurements of Ultrasonic Wave Velocities of Crustal Rocks at High Pressures and Temperatures: Petrological Structure of Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc Crust

   • Masahiro Ishikawa, Makoto Arima

   Pages 143-152

10. Seismic Imaging of the Mantle Discontinuities Beneath India: From Archean Cratons to Himalayan Subduction Zone

    • Shyam S. Rai, K. Suryaprakasam, V. K. Gaur

    Pages 153-161

11. Models for Constraining Thermal Structure of the Indian Crust

    • R. N. Singh

    Pages 163-173

12. Convection in the Earth’s Mantle

    • Ajay Manglik

    Pages 175-183

13. Post-perovskite Phase: Findings, Structure and Property

    • Takehiko Yagi

    Pages 185-189

14. Back Matter

    Pages 190-197

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The Indian National Science Academy was established in January 1935 with the objective of promoting science in India and harnessing scientific knowledge for the cause of humanity and national welfare. In 1968 it was designated as the adhering organisation in India to the International Council for Scientific Union (ICSU) on behalf of the Government of India. Over the years, the Academy has published a number of journals, volumes, biographical memoirs, etc. The year 2009–2010 will be specially celebrated to mark the Platinum Jubilee of the Academy. Many programmes are planned in different centres in India on this occasion. In addition, the Academy has decided to publish a number of special volumes on different s- jects ranging from earth sciences to life sciences. This volume is on Physics and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior. One of the main objectives of geophysicists is to establish the internal structure of the earth as revealed by seismic tomography. It is also their primary goal to correlate geophy- cal data to reveal thermal and chemical state of the crust, mantle and core of the earth. In - der to interpret seismic velocities and associated density and elastic properties in terms of mineralogical and petrological models of the earth’s interior, thermodynamic and hi- pressure temperature data from mineral physics are essential. With the advent of different types of multi-anvil and laser-heated diamond anvil equipment, it is now possible to simulate conditions prevalent even in the lower mantle and core of the earth.

• Convective cycles of Earth's interior
• Cooling history of rocks within Earth's mantle
• High-Pressure Mineral Physics
• Melt-generation and migration
• Seismological discontinuity
• Thermal structure of Earth's interior
• chemistry
• mineral
• modelling
• tectonics

• National Centre of Experimental Mineralogy and Petrology, Allahabad University, Allahabad, India

  Alok K. Gupta

• Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata, India

  Somnath Dasgupta

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