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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 LUNAR BASALTS1. Singletary, S., Grove, T.L. (2007) Origin of lunar high-titanium ultramafic glasses: A hybridized source? Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.,(submitted). 2. Shearer, C.K., Hess, P.C., Wierczorek, M.A., Pritchard, M.E., Parmentier, M.A.,Borg, L.A., Longhi, J., Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Neal, C.R., Antonenko, I., Canup, R.M., Halliday, A.N., Grove, T.L., Hager, B.H, Lee, D-C., Wiechert, U. (2006) Thermal and magmatic evolution of the Moon. In: "Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry v. 60", B.L. Jolliff et al.,eds., p. 365-518. 3. Elkins-Tanton, L., Hager, B.H., Grove, T.L. (2004) Magmatic effects of the lunar late heavy bombardment. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 222, 1, 17-27,doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.02.017 4. Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Chatterjee, N., Grove T.L. (2003) Magmatic processes thatproduced lunar fire fountains. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 10, 1513. 5. Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Chatterjee, N., Grove, T.L. (2002) Experimental and petrological constraints on lunar differentiation from the Apollo 15 green picritic glasses. Meteoritics Planet. Sci., 38, 4, 515-527 6. Elkins Tanton, L.T., Van Orman, J.A., Hager, B.H., Grove, T.L. (2002) Re-examination of the lunar magma ocean cumulate overturn hypothesis: meltingor mixing is required. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 196 , 239-249. 7. L.T. Elkins, V.A. Fernandes, J.W. Delano and T.L. Grove (2000) Origin of lunar ultramafic green glasses: Constraints from phase equilibrium studies. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 64, p. 2339 - 2350. 8. J.A. Van Orman and T.L. Grove (2000) Origin of lunar high - Ti ultramafic glasses: Constraints from phase relations and dissolution kinetics of clinopyroxene - ilmenite cumulates. Meteoritics Planet. Sci. 35, p. 783 -794. 9. T.P. Wagner and T.L. Grove (1997) Experimental constraints on the origin of lunar high - Ti ultramafic glasses. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 61,p. 1315 - 1327. |
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