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Preface

An Ernstfest Festschrift: Mineralogy and petrology of high P/T terranes, P-T-ometry, and experimental phase relations

¹ Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560-0119, U.S.A.
² Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A.

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This special issue of the American Mineralogist honors W. Gary Ernst, in recognition of his many original and influential contributions to the mineralogical sciences. Much of it derives from presentations made at the MSA-sponsored "Ernstfest," in the single largest theme session that the Geological Society of America has ever hosted. For three days at the 2003 Annual GSA meeting in Seattle, Gary’s students, fellows, colleagues, friends and admirers gathered under the Ernsteque rubric, "Phase Relations, High P/T Terrains, P-T-ometry, and Plate Pushing." Fifty-eight talks and forty-four posters were presented, all of them linked to something Gary has described, opined, measured or mapped. (Remarkably, Gary stayed awake during the whole thing.) The subjects of these papers plumbed the depths and ranged the globe—and even reached out to the petrotectonics of Venus. Presenters came from and discussed every continent on Earth. This prodigious intellectual tribute was too voluminous and too diverse to be properly served by any one publication venue, so in addition to this compilation in American Mineralogist of papers centered on mineralogy and petrology, two other special Ernst volumes are slated to appear, . . . [Full Text of this Article]