Describes and explains processes active during cooling of magma chambers

Fully explains field and laboratory methods to study layered cumulate rocks

Recent advances on the most important localities around the world with description of their mineral resources

Written by world-experts working on the most important layered igneous complexes

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Part I: Formation and Evolution of Cumulate Rocks.- Geochronology of Layered Intrusions.- Igneous Layering in Magma Chambers.- Quantitative Textural Analysis of Rocks in Layered Mafic Intrusions.- The Influence of Interfacial Energies on Igneous Microstructures.-Silicate Liquid Immiscibility in Layered Intrusions.- Marginal Reversals in Layered Intrusions.- The Significance of Magnetic Fabric in Layered Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusions.- Physical Controls of Nucleation, Growth and Migration of Vapor Bubbles in Partially Molten Cumulates.- Platinum-group Elements Deposits in Layered Intrusions: Recent Advances in the Understanding of the Ore Forming Processes.- Part II: Reviews of Major Layered Intrusions.- The Panzhihua Intrusion, Southwestern China.-The Sept Iles Intrusive Suite, Quebec.- The Bushveld Complex, South Africa.- The Kiglapait Layered Intrusion, Labrador.- The Ilimaussaq Intrusion, Greenland.- Ophiolitic Magma Chambers; a Perspective from the Canadian Appalachians.