Seismologist, investigates the Andes and subduction zones, currently complexly affiliated with St. Louis University and looking for new projects.
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Brandon Bishop
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You know, considering a whole range of geodynamic models call for melt just above the 410 km discontinuity in the mantle to freeze if they're pulled a bit deeper, there are very few studies of wadsleyite's wet solidus temperature.
And it's not like experimental petrologists don't do things with water and wadsleyite anyway--they do measure how much can go into it at different temperatures at greater than 410 km discontinuity pressures.
They just don't focus on determining the solidus temperature.
Not going to solidify to anything of it's the same as a olivine's just above the 410 km discontinuity.
Lots of stuff just build on a 2007 statement of "we assume the temperature of the eutectic for wadsleyite is higher than that of basalt's."
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