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| Subduction zone processes
| Origin of lunar basalts
| Mars magmatism and water on Mars
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| Magmatic processes on meteorite parent bodies
| Archean komatiites
| Planetary differentiation
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| Magmas from the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary
| Formation and stabilization of cratonic lithosphere
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| Mantle melting beneath mid-ocean ridges
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* Spinifex-textured Barberton komatiite ARCHEAN KOMATIITES1. Dann, J.C., Grove, T.L. (2007) Volcanology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Inflation and evolution of flow fields. In: "Precambrian ophiolites and related rocks", B.L. van Kronendonk et al.,eds., (in press), Elsevier 2. Parman, S.W., Grove, T.L. (2005) Komatiites in the plume debate. In: "Plates, Plumes and Paradigms",G.R. Folger, et al., eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper 388, p.249-256. 3. Parman, S.W., Grove, T.L. (2004) Petrology and geochemistry of Barberton komatiites and basaltic komatiites: Evidence of Archean fore-arc magmatism. In: "Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks", T.M. Kusky, ed., Developments in Precambrian Geology, v. 13, p. 539-565, doi:10.1016/S0166-2635(04)13016-8 4. Parman, S.W., Grove, T.L., Dann, J.C., de Wit, M.J. (2004) A subduction origin for komatiites and cratonic lithospheric mantle. South African Journal of Geology 107, 1-2,107-118. 5. Grove, T.L., Parman, S.W. (2004) Thermal evolution of the Earth as recorded by komatiites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett: Frontiers, 219, 173-187, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00002-0 6. Parman, S.W., Shimizu, N., Grove, T.L., Dann, J.C. (2003) Constraints on the pre-metamorphic trace element composition of Barberton komatiites from ion probe analyses of preserved clinopyroxene. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 144, 383-396, doi:10.1007/s00410-002-0406-1. 7. Parman, S.W., Shimizu, N., Grove, T.L., Dann, J.C. (2003) Constraints on the pre-metamorphic trace element composition of Barberton komatiites from ion probe analyses of preserved clinopyroxene. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 144, 383-396, doi:10.1007/s00410-002-0406-1 8. Parman, S.W., Grove, T.L., Dann, J.C. (2001) The production of Barberton komatiites in an Archean subduction zone . Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 , 2513-2516. 9. T.L. Grove, S.W. Parman, and J.C. Dann (1999) Conditions of magma generation for Archean komatiites from the Barberton Mountainland, South Africa. In Mantle Petrology: Field Observations and High Pressure Experimentation: A tribute to Francis R. (Joe) Boyd. The Geochemical Society, Special Publication 6, Y Fei, C.M. Bertka and B.O. Mysen, eds., p. 155 - 167. 10. S.W. Parman, J.C. Dann, T.L. Grove and M.J. de Wit (1997) Emplacement conditions of komatiite magmas from the 3.49 Ga Komati formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 150, p. 303- 323. 11. T.L. Grove, M. deWit and J.C. Dann (1996) Komatiites from the Komati type section, Barberton South Africa. In Tectonic Evolution of Greenstone Belts, M.J. deWit and L.D. Ashwal, eds., Oxford Univ. Press, p. 438- 453. |
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