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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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ORIGIN OF MAGMAS AT THE LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY1. Holbig, E.S., Grove, T.L. (2007) Mantle melting beneath the Tibetan Plateau: Experimental constraints on the generation of ultra-potassic lavas from Qiangtang, Tibet. J. Geophys.Res ., (submitted). 2. Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Grove, T.L. (2003) Evidence for deep melting of hydrous metasomatized mantle: Pliocene Sierran high-potassium magmas from the Sierra Nevadas. J. Geophys. Res., 108, B7, 2350, doi:101029/2002JB002168 3. T.P. Wagner and T.L. Grove (1998) Melt/harzburgite reaction in the petrogenesis of tholeiitic magma from Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 131, p. 1 - 12. 4. T.P. Wagner, D.A. Clague, E.H. Hauri and T.L. Grove (1998) Trace element abundances of high - MgO glasses from Kilauea, Mauna Loa and Haleakala volcanoes, Hawaii. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 131, p. 13 - 22. |
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