Add to ORKGI would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Calvin G. Barnes, for his interest and support in this project, as well as for many thought-provoking discussions. I also thank the other members of my committee, Drs. George B. Asquith and Thomas M. Lehman, for their help and timely reviews of my thesis. Thanks also to Cal, Melanie Barnes, Bennetta Schmidt and susan Tomlinson for their help and friendship in the field and laboratory. I must thank my friend, Bill Shannon, for his help in the lab and for many deep, often heated, discussions about petrology and life in general. Jim Bartolino took the time to make impressive presentation slides, even when he had a presentation of his own to prepare. Mike Gower made excellent thin sections and photographs o...
