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Current Research within Earth Materials

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Painting a picture of the early Earth

A Phd candidate at RSES is investigating the use of crystals of the mineral zircon as a thermometer of the past to reconstruct the conditions of the primeval Earth. Ancient zircon crystals are environmental archives, trapping atoms of elements that give hints on the landscape in which they formed.

Platinum shortage threatens hydrogen economy

The move to get clean, green hydrogen cars on the road will stall unless new reserves of platinum are found fast, according to Dr John Mavrogenes From RSES.

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Recent Earth Materials research highlights taken from the 2007 Annual Report

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Experimental Petrology

Introduction

A preliminary investigation of chlorine XANES in silicate melts - Katy Evans

The effect of CO₂ on the speciation of RbBr in solution at temperatures to 650 degrees C and pressures to 0.65 GPa - Katy Evans

Clarification of the Influence of Water on Mantle Wedge Melting - David Green

Accessory phase control on the trace element signature of subduction zone fluids - Jörg Hermann

The limitations of using unpolarized absorbance spectroscopy on anisotropic minerals - István Kovács

Vanadium partitioning and mantle oxidation state - Guil Mallmann

Collisional erosion and the non-chondritic composition of the terrestrial planets - Hugh O'Neill

The dependence of upper mantle melting temperatures on composition: A parameterization for peridotite based on the Gibbs phase rule - Hugh O'Neill

Interactions between felsic melts and peridotites in sub-arc conditions: Comparison between experimental results and natural samples - Cassian Pirard

Subduction recycling of continental sediments and the origin of geochemically enriched reservoirs in the deep mantle - Robert Rapp

Chlorine Partitioning: The Behavior of Cl in the Presence of Sulfide - Silicate Melts and Aqueous Fluid - Heather Sparks

Ti site occupancy and distribution in zircon: implications for thermometry - Nicholas Tailby

Rock Physics

Exploration potential of stress transfer modelling in fault-related mineral deposits - Steven Micklethwaite

High-temperature viscoelasticity and seismic wave attenuation: materials, methods and micromechanical modelling - Ian Jackson

Fault weakening and slow earthquakes as a consequence of fault gouge strengthening in hydrothermal regimes - insights from laboratory experiments - Silvio Giger

Structure & Tectonics

Cycles of lithospheric thickening and thinning along convergent plate margins: A case study from the European Alps - Marco Beltrando

Evidence for competing movement patterns influencing the evolution of the Sagaing-Sumatra wrench fault system - Abhijit Deonath

Tectonic Sequences Diagrams: Is orogeny simple? - Marnie Forster

Pplates - tectonic reconstruction software - Joe Kurtz

Geodynamics of the Sumatran Earthquakes - Gordon Lister

Geochronology of the Omo Group, Turkana Basin, east Africa - Ian McDougall

Virtual Earth - Simon Richards

Structural reactivation along the Portsoy lineament during extension and coeval High-T, Low-P Barrovian metamorphism - Simon Richards

Barrovian and Buchan metamorphism in Scotland as the result of lithospheric-scale extension during orogenesis - Daniel Viete