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 |

FORMATION AND STABILIZATION OF ARCHEAN CRATONS

1. Bell, D.R., Gregoire, M., Grove, T.L., Chatterjee, N., Bowring, S.A., Carlson, R.W., Buseck, P.R. (2005) Silica and volatile-element metasomatism of Archean mantle: a xenolith-scale example from the Kaapvaal Craton Contrib. Min.Pet., 150, 251-267,doi:10.1007/s00410-005-0673-8

2. Parman, S.W., Grove, T.L. (2004) Harzburgite Melting With and Without H2O:Experimental Data and Predictive Modeling. J. Geophys. Res., 109, B02201,doi:10.1029/2003JB002566

3. R.L. Saltzer, N. Chatterjee and T.L. Grove (2001) The spatial distribution of garnets and pyroxenes in mantle peridotites: Pressure-temperature history of peridotites from the Kaapvaal Craton. J. Petrol., 42, p.2215 - 2229.

4. R.W. Carlson, F.R. Boyd, S.B. Shirey, P.E. Janney, T.L. Grove, S.A. Bowring, J.C. Dann, D.R. Bell, J.J. Gurney, S.H. Richardson, M. Tredoux, A.H. Menzies, R.J. Hart, A.H. Wilson (2000) Continental growth, preservation and modification in southern Africa. GSA Today 10, p. 1 - 7.

5. R.J. Kinzler and T.L. Grove (1999) Origin of depleted cratonic harzburgite by deep fractional melt extraction and shallow olivine cumulate infusion. In Proc. 7th Intl. Kimberlite Conf. J. J. Gurney et al., eds., Red Roof Design, Cape Town, p. 437 - 443.

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