{"id":2522,"date":"2019-02-01T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=2522"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:55:17","slug":"gs-650-mantle-petrology-and-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/gs-650-mantle-petrology-and-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"GS 650 Mantle Petrology and Diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2522\" class=\"elementor elementor-2522 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50c25ee elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50c25ee\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-856a3c1\" data-id=\"856a3c1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b8e932 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b8e932\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-214591e\" data-id=\"214591e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1f26bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c1f26bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.3 - 28-12-2021 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">GS 650: Mantle Petrology and Diamonds<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-834bdb7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"834bdb7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Syllabus\u200b<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ccc168 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ccc168\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.3 - 28-12-2021 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Internal structure of the Earth. Mineralogy and composition of the upper mantle, transition zone and lower mantle. Polymorphic transformations between olivine, wadsleyite and ringwoodite. Core\u2013mantle boundary region and D&#8221; layer. Mineral physics and phase relations of perovskite and post-perovskite in the MgO\u2013FeO\u2013Al2O3\u2013SiO2 system. Mantle xenoliths and xenocrysts in volcanic rocks. Majoritic garnet microstructures. Supersilicic omphacite. Diamond inclusions and superdeep diamonds. Indicator minerals for diamond exploration. Classification schemes of mantle-derived garnets in kimberlite. Geothermometry and geobarometry of mantle xenoliths. Oxygen barometers and mantle oxidation states. Thermodynamics of phase transition and mantle convection. Mantle adiabat. Mantle metasomatism. Chemical composition of mantle metasomatic fluids. Cryptic and modal metasomatism. Phlogopite-related metasomatism of peridotites. MARID and allied rocks. Depletion and refertilisation of mantle source regions. Tracing lithospheric evolution through mineral geochemistry. Chemistry of carbon in aqueous fluids. Mantle carbon and formation of diamonds. Morphology and surface textures of diamonds. Diamond Types based on nitrogen aggregation states.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61ddbb1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"61ddbb1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Texts\/References<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8cca693 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8cca693\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Hazen, R. M., Jones, A.P. and Baross, J.A. (Eds.) Carbon in Earth, Reviews in Mineralogy, Volume 75, Mineralogical Society of America, 2013<\/li><li>Dawson, J.B. Kimberlites and Their Xenoliths, Springer, 1980<\/li><li>Menzies, M.A. and Hawkesworth, C.J. Mantle Metasomatism, Academic Press, 1987<\/li><li>Hemley, R.J. (Ed.) Ultrahigh Pressure Mineralogy: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth\u2019s Deep Interior, Reviews in Mineralogy, Volume 37, Mineralogical Society of America, 1999<\/li><li>Stacey, F.D. and Davis, P.M. Physics of the Earth, Cambridge University Press, 2008<\/li><li>Ganguly, J. Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Springer, 2010.<\/li><li>Tappert, R. and Tappert, M.C. Diamonds in Nature, Springer, 2011<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GS 650: Mantle Petrology and Diamonds Syllabus\u200b Internal structure of the Earth. Mineralogy and composition of the upper mantle, transition zone and lower mantle. Polymorphic transformations between olivine, wadsleyite and ringwoodite. Core\u2013mantle boundary region and D&#8221; layer. Mineral physics and phase relations of perovskite and post-perovskite in the MgO\u2013FeO\u2013Al2O3\u2013SiO2 system. Mantle xenoliths and xenocrysts in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}