| RefNo | EC/1999/06 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Carmichael, Ian Stuart Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1998 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Ian Carmichael pioneered the application of equilibrium thermodynamics to understanding the evolution of magmas and volcanic rocks. He has provided the only comprehensive set of high temperature (1000-1700C) thermodynamic data on multicomponent silicate liquids that are the foundation of all thermodynamic models of magmatic systems, and he initiated the most successful model of magmatic liquid-solid equilibria. From his extensive field investigations in western Mexico, chosen to illustrate the consequences of fragmentation of a continental plate above a subducting slab, he has established the tectonic/petrological framework to account for the most diverse series of lava types found on Earth. Professor Carmichael's leadership of the field of igneous petrology is attested to by the Bowen award of the American Geophysical Union (1986), the A.L. Day medal of the Geological Society of America (1991), the Schlumberger medal of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain (1992), the Murchison medal of the Geological Society of London (1995) and the Roebling medal of the Mineralogical Society of America (1997). |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2340 | Carmichael; Ian Stuart Edward (1930 - 2011) | 1930 - 2011 |