Archive for March 27, 2018

Alicia ‘Cici’ Cruz-Uribe (WHOI postdoc 2014-2015) has just published her work on melange melting in Geology. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/528313/generation-of-alkaline-magmas-in-subduction-zones “Here we report results from experiments in which natural mélange materials were partially melted at upper mantle conditions to produce alkaline magmas. Partial melts produced in our experiments have trace-element abundance patterns that are typical of alkaline arc lavas,…