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BREITKREUZ, C. & PETFORD, N. (eds) 2004. Physical Geology of High-Level Magmatic Systems. Geological Society Special Publication no. 234.

vii + 253 pp. London, Bath: Geological Society of London. Price £80.00, US $144.00; GSL members’ price £40.00, US $72.00; AAPG/SEPM/GSA/RAS/EFG/PESGB members’ price £48.00, US $87.00 (hard covers). ISBN 1 86239 169 6.

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This edited volume is the product of a two-day workshop held in Freiberg, Germany, in October 2002. Fourteen papers are published here, covering such diverse themes as lavas, pyroclastic and volcaniclastic deposits, peperites, sills and various other shallow-level intrusions. This book is, essentially, the successor to Newall & Rast’s classic 1970 volume, Mechanism of Igneous Intrusion (Geological Journal Special Issue no. 2) and illustrates how far our understanding has come in the intervening 33 years.

Most of the presentations adopt a case-study approach, involving an interesting list of locations from throughout Europe: the Late Palaeozoic Intra-Sudetic Basin, . . . [Full Text of this Article]