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Introduction to the Michael J. Holdaway commemorative issue

Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, E235 Howe-Russell Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, U.S.A.

Correspondence: ^* E-mail: dutrow@geol.lsu.edu

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This special issue of the American Mineralogist is dedicated to Michael J. Holdaway in honor of his nearly 40 years of contributions to the geosciences community. Metamorphic petrology has grown from a discipline based on field observation and interpretation to a quantitative discipline where experimental determinations on mineral stabilities provide a framework for quantitative petrogenetic grids and derivative tectonic interpretations, and theoretical activity modeling of detailed crystal chemistry establishes the link back to the real rocks.

Michael J. Holdaway has made fundamental contributions to each of these areas over his academic career. Mike was born down under in Canberra, Australia. He moved to the U.S. where he later undertook his university education. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Yale in 1958, he moved to the University of California at Berkeley. There he studied with Francis Turner, as an NSF fellow, and received his Ph.D. four years later. He was trained in the classical traditions of metamorphic petrology; with a solid background in thermodynamics, a penchant for careful observation of field relations and a facility for detailed analysis of mineral chemistry, all of which he continued to apply throughout his career.

His Ph.D. studies, focused on mafic metamorphic rocks in the Klamath Mountains of California, lead to one of his first publications . . . [Full Text of this Article]