The roll of melting heat transfer on magnetohydrodynamic natural convection in a square enclosure with heating of bottom wall is examined numerically in this article. The dimensionless governing partial differential equations are transformed into vorticity and stream function formulation and then solved using the finite difference method (FDM). The effects of thermal Rayleigh number (Ra</em...

The existence of partial melt is frequently invoked to explain geophysical anomalies such as low seismic wave velocity and high electrical conductivity. I review various experimental and theoretical studies to evaluate the plausibility of this explanation. In order for a partial melt model to work, not only the presence of melt, but also the presence of appropriate amount of melt needs to be ex...

A recent significant achievement in trace element modeling is the development of the congruent (eutectic) dynamic melting (CDM) model where only melt is generated. However, melting reactions in the mantle and crust often produce not only melt but also minerals. By introducing melting reactions into the dynamic melting model, we present a series of equations for incongruent dynamic melting (IDM)...

We report partial melting of an ultrahigh pressure eclogite in the Mesozoic Sulu orogen, China. Eclogitic migmatite shows successive stages of initial intragranular and grain boundary melt droplets, which grow into a three-dimensional interconnected intergranular network, then segregate and accumulate in pressure shadow areas and then merge to form melt channels and dikes that transport magma t...

High-pressure melting experiments on the Homestead L5 ordinary chondrite were performed at 5 GPa in a multi-anvil device over a temperature interval that ranged from near solidus to near liquidus conditions. Near solidus silicate liquids of Homestead have higher CaO/Al2O3 and lower Mg# compared to solidus liquids of terrestrial peridotite (e.g.: KLB-1) at this pressure. The silicate portion of ...

The selected peridotite samples come from the Josephine ophiolite, emplaced 157 My ago and now part of the western Jurassic belt of the Klamath Mountains in Northern California and Southwest Oregon [1]. The ophiolite is partly dismembered but presents a complete ophiolitic section from mantle peridotites in the lower part (our samples) to pillow lavas at the top. The Josephine peridotite extend...

We examine several issues related to peridotite partial melting by composition (Na2O decreases, CaO/Al2O3 increases) are similar to the effects of increasing total extent of melting of a fixed source performing thermodynamic calculations using the MELTS algorithm. composition, and the two phenomena may therefore be difficult to MELTS calculations suggest that the high alkali content of neardisc...

There is considerable controversy over the nature of geophysically recognized low-velocity-high-conductivity zones (LV-HCZs) within the Tibetan crust, and their role in models for the development of the Tibetan Plateau. Here we report petrological and geochemical data on magmas erupted 4.7-0.3 Myr ago in central and northern Tibet, demonstrating that they were generated by partial melting of cr...