Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Structural dynamics of basaltic melt at mantle conditions with implications for magma oceans and superplumes

  • Arnab Majumdar,
  • Min Wu,
  • Yuanming Pan,
  • Toshiaki Iitaka,
  • John S. Tse

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18660-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Transport properties of melts in the deep Earth have dictated the evolution of the early Earth’s magma oceans and also govern many modern dynamic processes, such as plate tectonics. Here, the authors find there is a reversal in the trends of transport properties of basaltic melts at pressures near 50 GPa, with implications for the timescales of early Earth’s magma oceans.