This volume is devoted to the memory of the Russian petrologist D.S. Korzhinskiy. The world community of geoscientists has highly valued his contributions to petrology, particularly the discovery and thermodynamic description of open systems with perfectly mobile components. Korzhinskiy's work reached this community's attention because his book Physicochemical Basis of the Analysis of the Paragenesis of Minerals (1959, Consultants Bureau, New York) was translated into English. However, in the Soviet Union D.S. Korzhinskiy is also highly regarded for his contributions to geology and study of ore deposits as well as to theoretical petrology. Stratigraphy and geology of the Precambrian Aldan shield in Eastern Siberia; origin of lapis lazuli and phlogopite deposits and iron formations; boron mineralization; genesis of skarns and general theory of metasomatic zoning; origin of granites, charnockites and anorthosites; theory of the acid-basic interaction of components in the dry silicate melts: all of these were subjects of his more than 200 papers and books. The papers in the present volume span Korzhinskiy's broad interests. These papers were selected with the aim of illustrating the progress made in physicochemical petrology since Korzhinskiy.

Этот том избранных трудов академика Д.С.Коржинского включает разработку теории метасоматизма. Рассмотрены не только физико-химические основы этого наиболее обширного класса минералообразования в природе, но и причинная зависимость эволюционной смены метасоматических формаций во времени циклов эндогенного минерало- и рудообразования.

Д.С.Коржинским заложена новая отрасль магматической петрологии — ’’метамагматизм” (или процесс взаимодействия жидких магм с флюидами). Здесь публикуются принципиальные статьи автора по метамагматизму, начиная с вопросов трансмагматических флюидов, гранитизации и кончая метамагматическим рудообразованием.