MIT Petrology Recent Publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON SELECTED RESEARCH TOPICS

These are topics where we have used the tools experimental petrology, major and trace element geochemistry, field and petrologic studies to understand the origin of magmas and chemical evolution of the mantle and cores of the terrestrial planets.

| 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 |

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