MIT Petrology Recent Publications

| Subduction zone processes | Origin of lunar basalts | Mars magmatism and water on Mars |
| Magmatic processes on meteorite parent bodies | Archean komatiites | Planetary differentiation |
| Magmas from the lithosphere – asthenosphere boundary | Formation and stabilization of cratonic lithosphere |
| Mantle melting beneath mid-ocean ridges |

ORIGIN OF MAGMAS AT THE LITHOSPHERE–ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY

1. 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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