Knowledge of temperature and pressure, however qualitative, has been central to our views
of geology since at least the early 19th century. In 1822, for example, Charles Daubeny …

The roles of subduction of the Pacific plate and the big mantle wedge (BMW) in the evolution
of east Asian continental margin have attracted lots of attention in past years. This paper …

Pressure is one of the key variables that controls magmatic phase equilibria. However,
estimating magma storage pressures from erupted products can be challenging. Various …

Modeling of melt formation and transport in all tectonic settings requires the inclusion of
water, since water has large effects on mantle solidi as well as physical properties of liquids …

4.1 Introduction 51 4.2 Elastic constants 52 4.3 Isothermal versus adiabatic elastic constants
55 4.4 Experimental techniques 57 4.5 Some general trends in elasticity: Birch's law 59 4.6 …

A review of experiments on natural peridotites allows improved constraints on the location of
the mantle solidus. Available constraints on the location of the nominally dry peridotite …

We document compositions of minerals and melts from 3 GPa partial melting experiments on
two carbonate-bearing natural lherzolite bulk compositions (PERC: MixKLB-1+ 2· 5 wt …

Our ability to calculate the depths and temperatures at which magmas partially crystallize
can prove crucial as petrologists test hypotheses of magma transport and evolution. Yet …

Many oceanic-island basalts (OIBs) with isotopic signatures of recycled crustal components
are silica poor and strongly nepheline (ne) normative and therefore unlike the silicic liquids …

Mantle temperatures provide a key test of the mantle plume hypothesis, and olivine-liquid
equilibria provide perhaps the most certain means of estimating mantle temperatures. Here …