This is the starting point for the web-based material associated with the "Calculating phase diagrams" paper in Journal of Metamorphic Geology. It is all concerned with calculating phase diagram with THERMOCALC, the thermodynamic calculation software package for tackling mineral equilibria problems. THERMOCALC has two main components: the application itself, and the internally-consistent thermodynamic dataset it uses.
The web-based material regarding THERMOCALC is here (at one of JMG's sites), and also at RP's and TJBH's sites. The material here relates directly to the paper providing - hopefully! - the information to allow you to reproduce the diagrams in this paper, and in the process discover how THERMOCALC works. As the material here is "frozen-in" at the time of acceptance of the paper, yet THERMOCALC and its dataset will continue to evolve, the most recent software, dataset and documentation will be available at our web sites
The version of THERMOCALC provided here is v2.6. All subsequent bug fixes and improvements will go into v2.7 et seq. The version of the thermodynamic dataset provided here is April 20, 1996. This dataset can be used, for example, for teaching purposes. However, for new research work, the most recent dataset, incorporating all the most recent calorimetric and experimental data, should be used. THERMOCALC itself is "backwards-compatible", so the newest version should normally be used regardless of which dataset is used; v2.6 is provided here for completeness.
The component parts of the web-based material here are available via the following links:
Other aspects of documentation that are not specific to this paper, are available at our web sites (above), including
as well as documentation of other facilities available in THERMOCALC. To avoid confusion (and irritation), the only links to our web sites are on this page.
Some of the material to read here is in portable document format (pdf), as produced by Adobe Acrobat. If your browser won't handle pdf's already, go to Adobe and download the appopriate freeware for your web browser / platform (a plug-in for your browser?, Adobe Acrobat Reader?)
To test if you have access to pdf files, try to access this link: testing for pdf
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