Melting temperatures of MgO under high pressure by micro-texture analysis

Melting behaviour of MgO under pressure remains unclear despite the importance of constraining the rheology and composition of the Earth’s mantle. Here, the authors show that melting temperatures in earlier static experiments were underestimated based on micro-texture analysis of the quenched sample...

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Main Authors: T. Kimura, H. Ohfuji, M. Nishi, T. Irifune
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15735