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Kevin Burke's Readings

Kevin Burke , Bernhard Steinberger, Trond H. Torsvik, and Mark A. Smethurst: Plume Generation Zones at the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces on the core?mantle boundary, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 265 (2008) 49?60

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Kevin Burke, Shuhab D. Khan, Ronald W. Mart: Grenville Province and Monteregian carbonatite and nepheline syenite distribution related to rifting, collision, and plume passage, Geology, December 2008; v. 36; no. 12; p. 983?986;

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Othmar Muntener's Readings

Gianreto Manatschal and Othmar Muntener: A type sequence across an ancient magma-poor ocean?continent transition: the example of the western Alpine Tethysophiolites, Tectonophysics 473 (2009) 4?19

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Othmar Muntener , Gianreto Manatschal: High degrees of melt extraction recorded by spinel harzburgite of the Newfoundland margin: The role of inheritance and consequences for the evolution of the southern North Atlantic, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 252 (2006) 437?452

Additional

Luc L. Lavier and Gianreto Manatschal: A mechanism to thin the continental lithosphere at magma-poor margins, Nature Vol. 440|16 March 2006

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Natsue Abe's Readings

Naoto Hirano et al.: Volcanism in Response to Plate Flexure, SCIENCE, Vol. 313, 2006

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Shiki Machida, Naoto Hirano, and Jun-Ichi Kimura: Evidence for recycled plate material in Pacific upper mantle unrelated to plumes, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73 (2009) 3028?303

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Junji Yamamoto, Naoto Hirano, Natsue Abe, and Takeshi Hanyu: Noble gas isotopic compositions of mantle xenoliths from northwestern Pacific lithosphere, Chemical Geology268 (2009) 313?323

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Toshiya Fujiwara, Naoto Hirano, Natsue Abe, and Kaoru Takizawa: Subsurface structure of the ??petit-spot?? volcanoes on the northwestern Pacific Plate, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 34, 2007

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Petit-spot workshop

Petit-spot workshop: Implications for the structure and evolution of oceanic plate and underlying mantle

George Bergantz's Readings

J. Dufek and G. W. Bergantz: Lower Crustal Magma Genesis and Preservation: a Stochastic Framework for the Evaluation of Basalt?Crust Interaction, Journal of Petrologypp 1-29, Advance Access published June 3, 2005

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Olivier Bachmann and George W. Bergantz: Rhyolites and their Source Mushes across Tectonic Settings, JOURNALOF PETROLOGY Volume 49 Number 12, Pages 2277-2285, 2008

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Scott Barboza and George Bergantz: Metamorphism and Anatexis in the Mafic Complex Contact Ayreole, Ivrea Zone, Morthern Italy, Journal of Petrology Volume 41, Number 8, Pages 1307-13227

Reference

J.E. Otamendi et al.: Geology and petrology of a deep crustal zone from the Famatinian paleo-arc, Sierras de Valle Fertil and La Huerta, San Juan, Argentina, Journal of South American Earth Sciences xxx (2009) xxx?xxx, In Press

Additional background and context

Mike Cheadle's Readings

Graham Baines, Michael J. Cheadle, Barbara E. John, and Joshua J. Schwartz: The rate of oceanic detachment faulting at Atlantis Bank, SW Indian Ridge, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 273 (2008) 105?114

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C. Johan Lissenberg, Matthew Rioux, Nobumichi Shimizu, Samuel A. Bowring, and Catherine Mevel1: Zircon Dating of Oceanic Crustal Accretion, Science, Vol. 323, 20 FEBRUARY 2009

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Craig B. Grimes, Barbara E. John, and Michael J. Cheadle and Joseph L. Wooden: Protracted construction of gabbroic crust at a slow spreading ridge: Constraints from 206Pb/238U zircon ages from Atlantis Massif and IODP Hole U1309D (30_N, MAR), Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems , Volume 9, Number 8, 23 August 2008

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Mathilde Cannat's Readings

Richard L. Carlson and D. Jay Miller: A new assessment of the abundance of serpentinite in the oceanic crust, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, Vol. 24, NO.4, Pages 457-460, February 15, 1997

Required reading

Mathilde Cannat, Fabrice Fontaine, and Javier Escartin: Serpentinization and Associated Hydrogen and Methane Fluxes at Slow Spreading Ridges, Geophysical Monograph Series2008GM000760-RO-Cannat.indd, In Press

Required reading

Cin-Ty Lee's Readings

Albrecht W. Hofmann: Chemical differentiation of the Earth: the relationship between mantle, continental crust, and oceanic crust, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 90 (1988) 297-314

Required reading

Roberta L. Rudnick: Making Continental Crust, Review Article, Nature, Vol. 378, 7 Dec. 1995

Required reading

Cin-Ty A. Lee et al.: Upside-down differentiation and generation of a ?primordial? lower mantle, Nature Vol 463, 18 February 2010

Additional background and context

Cin-Ty A. Lee et al.: Constraints on the depths and temperatures of basaltic magma generation on Earth and other terrestrial planets using new thermobarometers for mafic magmas, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 279 (2009) 20?33

Additional background and context

Cin-Ty A. Lee et al.: Petrology and tectonics of Phanerozoic continent formation: From island arcs to accretion and continental arc magmatism, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 263 (2007) 370?387

Additional background and context

Richard Katz's Readings

Richard F. Katz, Marc Spiegelman, & Benjamin Holtzman: The dynamics of melt and shear localization in partially molten aggregates, Nature, Vol. 442|10 August 2006

Required reading

Richard F. Katz: Magma Dynamics with the Enthalpy Method: Benchmark Solutions and Magmatic Focusing at Mid-ocean Ridges, JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY, Volume 49, Number 12, December 2008

Additional

Oliver Jagoutz's Readings

Oliver E. Jagoutz: Construction of the granitoid crust of an island arc. Part II: a quantitative petrogenetic model, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (2010) pp. 1-23

Required reading

C. Annen, J. D. Blundy and R. S. J. Sparks: The Genesis of Intermediate and Silicic Magmas in Deep Crustal Hot Zones, JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY Volume 47 Number 3 March2006

Additional background and context

Harry McSween's Reading

Harry Y. McSween Jr et al.: HED METEORITES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE GEOLOGY OF VESTA AND THE DAWN MISSION

Reguired reading

Sam Bowring's Readings

R. L. Armstrong: The persistent myth of crustal growth, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (1991) 38, 613-630

Required reading

John F. Dewey: The secular evolution of plate tectonics and the continental crust: An outline, Geological Society of America Memoirs 2007;200;1-7

Required reading

T. Mark Harrison: The Hadean Crust: Evidence from >4 Ga Zircons, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 2009. 37:479?505

Additional background and context

Wolfgang Bach's Readings

Thomas M. McCollom: Geochemical Constraints on Sources of Metabolic Energy for Chemolithoautotrophy in Ultramafic-Hosted Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Systems, ASTROBIOLOGY, Volume 7, Number 6, 2007

Required reading

Frieder Klein, Wolfgang Bach , Niels Jons, Tom McCollom , Bruce Moskowitz, Thelma Berquo: Iron partitioning and hydrogen generation during serpentinization of abyssal peridotites from 15_N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73 (2009) 6868?6893

Required reading

Michael Wyatt's Readings

Harry Y. McSween Jr., G. Jeffrey Taylor, and Michael B. Wyatt: Elemental Composition of the Martian Crust, SCIENCE, Vol 324, 8 MAY 2009

Required Reading

Michael B. Wyatt et al.: Global geologic context for rock types and surface alteration on Mars, Geology; v. 32; no. 8; p. 654?648, August 2004

Required Reading

Jean-Pierre Bibring, et al.: Global Mineralogical and Aqueous Mars History Derived from OMEGA/Mars Express Data, SCIENCE, Vol. 312, 21 APRIL 2006

Required Reading

Jean-Pierre Bibring, et al.: Mars Surface Diversity as Revealed by the OMEGA/Mars Express Observations, Science 307, 1576 (2005)

Additional background and context

G. Jeffrey Taylor et al.: Mapping Mars geochemically, Geology; 38; 183-186, 2010

Additional background and context

Joshua L. Bandfield et al.: A Global View of Martian Surface Compositions from MGS-TES, SCIENCE, Vol. 287 3 MARCH 2000

Additional background and context

Michael B. Wyatt & Harry Y. McSween Jr: Spectral evidence for weathered basalt as an alternative to andesite in the northern lowlands of Mars, NATURE ,Vol. 417, 16 May 2002

Additional background and context

Maria Zuber's Readings

Maria T. Zuber: The crust and mantle of Mars, NATURE, vol 412, 12 July 2001

Required reading

Mark A. Wieczorek: The Interior Structure of the Moon: What Does Geophysics Have to Say?, Elements, Vol. 5, pp. 35?40, February 2009

Required reading

Sean Solomon's Readings

Sean C. Solomon: Mercury: the enigmatic innermost planet, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 216 (2003) 441- 455

Required for Discussion

James W. Head, et al.: Volcanism on Mercury: Evidence from the First MESSENGER Flyby, Science 321, 69 (2008)

Required for Discussion

Brett W. Denevi, et al.: The Evolution of Mercury?s Crust: A Global Perspective from MESSENGER, Science 324, 613 (2009);

Required for Discussion