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Evolution in the Understanding of Mineral Transformations and Concept of Metamorphic Facies

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This chapter is a brief account of the history of the ideas that provided the conceptual basis for metamorphic petrology, with a list of outstanding researchers who made the greatest contributions to the study of metamorphism mostly until the end of the last century. The main emphasis is on the evolution of views on mineral transformations in rocks, including the kinetics of metamorphism and metamorphic facies concepts in terms of the diversity of mineral assemblages. Such a retrospect takes the reader into a set of problems of metamorphic petrology and introduces the terms and concepts.

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  1. V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Vladimir V. Reverdatto

  2. V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Igor I. Likhanov

  3. V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Oleg P. Polyansky

  4. V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Valentin S. Sheplev

  5. V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Vasiliy Yu. Kolobov

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Reverdatto, V.V., Likhanov, I.I., Polyansky, O.P., Sheplev, V.S., Kolobov, V.Y. (2019). Evolution in the Understanding of Mineral Transformations and Concept of Metamorphic Facies. In: The Nature and Models of Metamorphism. Springer Geology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03029-2_1

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