This article is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2018. Edited by David L. Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ...

ABSTRACT: The mid-ocean ridge serves as the epicenter of oceanic spreading. It generates the majority of the Earth’s magmas and is the birthplace of new oceanic crusts. However, our current ...

We present a method for calculating quantitative melting reactions in systems with multiple solid solutions that accounts for changes in the mass proportions of phases between two points at different ...

Introduction: The Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt (JLJB), situated between the Longgang Block and Nangrim Block, hosts extensive Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary-volcanic sequences of the Liaohe Group. There has ...

ABSTRACT: The alkaline volcanism of the Cameroon Volcanic Line in its northern domain has raised many fresh enclaves of peridotites. The samples selected come from five (05) different localities (Liri ...

1 Guangxi Key Laboratory of Hidden Metallic Ore Deposits Exploration, College of Earth Sciences, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, China 2 Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploration of ...

l'essentiel Une cinquantaine de géologues du monde entier s’est rendue jeudi à Lers, afin d’étudier les lherzolites, des roches très importantes du manteau terrestre, à qui l’étang a donné son nom.

This work presents a geochemical study of a set of garnets, selected by their colors, from the Camafuca-Camazambo kimberlite, located on northeast Angola. Mantle-derived garnets were classified ...

Due to active plate tectonics, there are no direct rock archives covering the first ca. 500 million y of Earth’s history. Therefore, insights into Hadean geodynamics rely on indirect observations from ...

The Pyaung-Gaung area in the Mogok township of Myanmar is one of the essential sources of high-quality peridot for the international gem trade. Pyaung-Gaung peridot possesses an attractive deep olive ...