Composition, mean pressure, mean melt fraction, and crustal thickINTRODUCTION ness of model mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs) are calculated Comparison of observed basalt compositions with the using MELTS. Polybaric, isentropic batch and fractional melts predictions of polybaric mantle melting models places from ranges in source composition, potential temperature, and final important restrictions...

Abstract. Normal incidence seismic data provide the best images of crust and lithosphere. When properly designed continuous, these sections greatly contribute to understanding geometry orogens and, along with surface geology, unraveling their evolution. In this paper we present most complete transect, date, Iberian Massif, westernmost exposure European Variscides. Despite heterogeneity dataset,...

Introduction Valles Marineris is one of the most prominent tectonic structures on Mars. It is approximately 4000 km long [1] and up to 11 km deep [2]. Valles Marineris is oriented radial to the Tharsis volcanic province and formed primarily by normal faulting in an extensional rifting environment [3]. Detailed geologic mapping indicates that it formed primarily during the Early Hesperian [4], c...