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An Introduction to Metamorphic Petrology, Second Edition Yardley B.W.D. and Warren C. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 344, ISBN 9781108456487
Bruce Yardley's ‘An Introduction to Metamorphic Petrology’ (published by Longman Scientific and Technical) has been a go-to textbook for both teachers and students for some three decades. The aim of this book was that it should be “comprehensible to the student who has little knowledge of thermodynamics” and should introduce “some of the known facts and currently fashionable hypotheses”; two facets, that this original book achieved remarkably well. The Second Edition, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021, and co-authored by both Bruce Yardley and Clare Warren, provides the first update since 1989.
The First Edition comprised some 248 pages in total, split into seven chapters, with an additional appendix on phase diagram formulation. The Second Edition rises to 333 pages, split into ten chapters, with three appendices. The first set of chapters follows the same pattern in the updated edition, beginning with ‘The Concept of Metamorphism’, then introducing the concept of chemical equilibrium, perhaps one of the most important facets of metamorphic...