Science Highlights
Wildfire Produces Transient Minerals: Speciation, Reactivity, and Fate of Iron and Manganese in Surface Soils Post Wildfire
Kang, K., Whelan, E. M., Bone, S., Rowley, M. C., Marcus, M. A., & Peña, J. (2025). Wildfire Produces Transient Minerals: Speciation, Reactivity, and Fate of Iron and Manganese in Surface Soils...
Invisible water in subducted crust: Lawsonite velocity anomalies under mantle conditions
Chen, Sibo, Siheng Wang, Xintong Qi, Man Xu, Tony Yu, Yanbin Wang, and Baosheng Li. “Invisible water in subducted crust: Lawsonite velocity anomalies under mantle conditions.” Proceedings of the...
Viscosity of Dry and Hydrous Diopside Melts at High Pressures: Implications for Upper Mantle Magma Dynamics
Chen, Q., Zhao, B., Yu, T., Ashley, A. W., & Wang, Y. (2025). Viscosity of dry and hydrous diopside melts at high pressures: Implications for upper mantle magma dynamics. Journal of Geophysical...
Elasticity of davemaoite as a primary contributor to lower-mantle heterogeneities
Zhou, Wen-Yi, Ming Hao, Wenhao Su, Taehyun Kim, Sibo Chen, Sang-Heon Shim, Dongzhou Zhang, Phuong QH Nguyen, Katherine Armstrong, and Jin S. Zhang. “Elasticity of davemaoite as a primary contributor...
Effect of multiple calcination cycles on CO2 capture efficiency during carbonation of MgO in a mineral looping process
Tajuelo Rodriguez, E., Anovitz, L.M., Adapa, S., Yuan, Ke, Hensley, D., Chung, D-Y., Boebinger, M.G., Stack, A.G., Weber, J. Effect of multiple calcination cycles on CO2 capture efficiency during...
In situ deformation of antigorite-olivine two-phase mixtures: Implications for dynamics and seismic anisotropy in the mantle wedge
Hurlow, Rose, Wenhao Su, Wen-Yi Zhou, Feng Lin, Lowell Miyagi, Timothy Officer, Tony Yu et al. “In situ deformation of antigorite-olivine two-phase mixtures: Implications for dynamics and seismic...
Building wet planets through high-pressure magma–hydrogen reactions
Horn, H.W., Vazan, A., Chariton, S. Prakapenka, V., Shim, S-H., Building wet planets through high-pressure magma–hydrogen reactions. Nature 646, 1069–1074 (2025).
High-pressure Cr3+ luminescence and Raman of a natural MgAl2O4 spinel to ∼60 GPa
Pease, A., D. Sneed, C. Vennari, and E. F. O’Bannon III. “High-pressure Cr3+ luminescence and Raman of a natural MgAl2O4 spinel to∼ 60 GPa.” Journal of Luminescence (2025): 121634.
Redox and magma recharge controls on excess sulfur build-up at Mount Samalas, 1257 CE
Ding, S., Longpré, MA., Economos, R. et al. Redox and magma recharge controls on excess sulfur build-up at Mount Samalas, 1257 CE. Nat Commun 16, 9256 (2025).