Physical Chemistry of Magmas investigates the properties, structure, and phase relationships of silicate melts with invited contributions from an international team of experts. Data and some rules for estimating the properties and structures of melts, as well as the implications of the physical chemistry of silicate liquids to igneous petrology are presented. The second section then focuses on phase relationships, with particular attention on the application of experimental and theoretical petrology to modeling the origin of certain magmas.

Contributions by: D.R. Baker, Y. Bottinga, A.S. Chekhmir, C.D. Doyle, M.B. Epel'baum, P.C. Hess, I. Kushiro, A.D. Kuznetsov, B.O. Mysen, L.L. Perchuk, E.S. Persikov, N. Shimizu, Y. Tatsumi, E.B. Watson