PETROLOGY

Focusing on the metapelitic system, and through extensive practice at the microscopic laboratory, the course will provide deep insight into the main aspects of metamorphic petrology, such as:
-metamorphic classification;
-equilibrium assemblages; metamorphic facies;
-chemographies and other graphical representations;
-metamorphic reactions and equilibria;
-thermodynamics applied to phase equilibria modelling;
-role of fluids in metamorphism, fluid inclusions;
-geothermobarometry and phase equilibria calculations;
-metamorphism of pelites;
-contact metamorphism; crustal anatexis;
-microstructures of anatectic rocks;
-melt inclusions in migmatites and granulites.