The book summarizes the results of the experimental studies of phase relations in the chemical
systems relevant to Earth carried out by the author in a time period of over 20 years between
1979 and 2001. It is based on 1000 piston-cylinder experiments at pressures up to 4 GPa and
close to 700 experiments carried out with a multi-anvil apparatus at pressures up to 24 GPA.
This is the largest published collection of calculated phase diagrams for the chemical systems
relevant to Earth. This is also the first time that the phase relations at the relatively low
pressures of the lithospheric mantle mainly applicable to the experimental thermobarometry of
metamorphic rocks and mantle xenoliths are seamlessly integrated with the phase relations of
the sublithospheric upper mantle and the uppermost lower mantle primarily applicable to
inclusions in diamond and schocked meteorites. Tibor Gasparik has devoted his career to
determining the high-pressure high-temperature phase relations of the geologically important
Sodium-Calcium-Magnesium-Aluminium-Silicon (NCMAS) oxide system. This book is his opus magnum
summarizing more than 1700 experiments in over 120 figures. ... I have found Phase Diagrams for
Geoscientists to be a useful first port-of-call for finding the P-T stability fields ... and I
can recommend the book as a reference for geoscientists requiring an overview of the stable
phase assemblages in the top 700 km of the Earth. (David Dobson Geological Magazine Vol. 142
(2) 2005)
