In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

In particular I am interested the process of magma mixing. I study the texture and geochemistry of lavas to understand the source of the magma and the magmatic processes invovled in its evolution. I ...

Scientists have now found out a previously missed step in the process of how the seafloor turned into mountains.

It is useful because it tells us the crystal grew relatively quickly, which suggests the magma underwent complex events such as mixing with other magma, convection, rising, or releasing gases ...