Journal of Petrology Volume 41 Number 12 Pages 1824-1825 2000
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Mantle Petrology: Field Observations and High Pressure Experimentation (a Tribute to Francis R. (Joe) Boyd) edited by Y. Fei, C. M. Bertka and B. O. Mysen. Geochemical Society Special Publication 6. The Geochemical Society, Houston, TX, 1999. 322 pp. ISBN 0941809056. US$55 for members; $85 for non-members
Joe Boyd, a stalwart of petrology, officially retired from the
Geophysical Laboratory in 1996 after 43 years of service. In
an effort to immortalize this event in the annals of petrology,
Boyd’s colleagues organized a symposium, which resulted
in this edited volume. Joe Boyd’s versatility is legendary:
his contribution ranges from ’hard core’ experimental
petrology and to field and laboratory based studies. Boyd’s
pioneering work on the nature of the Earth’s mantle has
inspired many, including this writer, to fall in love with those
tiny gifts from the mantle, packaged as ’xenoliths’,
brought to the surface by lavas. Understandably, the editors,
all of whom are theoreticians and experimentalists, tried to
organize this volume in such a way that it appropriately reflects
Boyd’s research interests, and divided the various contributions
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