The pMELTS: A revision of MELTS for improved calculation of phase relations and major element partitioning related to partial melting of the mantle to 3 GPa

By Mark S. Ghiorso, M. Hirschmann, P. Reiners, V. Kress. 2002

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The Role of Water in Generating the Calc-alkaline Trend: New Volatile Data for Aleutian Magmas and a New Tholeiitic Index (2010, methodology): “To generate more strongly CA trends (i.e. THI 50·9), magnetite must crystallize earlier in the LLD, which is an effect that is not reproduced by pMELTS even with 6wt % H2O (Fig.”
Linked magma ocean solidification and atmospheric growth for Earth and Mars (2008, background): “The final termmoves the solidus to lower temperatures as the magma ocean liquids evolve; this term is fitted to solidus temperatures from pMELTS (Ghiorso et al., 2002) based on evolved magma compositions from ourmodels (Eq.”
Icelandic analogs to Martian flood lavas (2004, methodology): “The MELTS program [Ghiorso and Sack, 1995; Asimow and Ghiorso, 1998; Ghiorso et al., 2002] was used to calculate the liquidus temperature, lava temperature, and predicted crystallinity of the distal lavas of interest (Table 3).”
A Simple Thermodynamic Model for Melting of Peridotite in the System NCFMASOCr (2015, methodology): “pMELTS, part of the MELTS family of thermodynamic models, is optimized for mantle melting-appropriate P–T conditions and bulk compositions (Ghiorso et al., 2002).”
Ventilation of CO2 from a reduced mantle and consequences for the early Martian greenhouse (2008, methodology): “Our own calculations using pMELTS (Ghiorso et al., 2002) verify that Fe/Fe partitioning during partial melting varies considerably with oxygen fugacity, pressure, and to a lesser extent, degree of partial melting.”
Toward a general viscosity equation for natural anhydrous and hydrous silicate melts (2007, background): “This limitation was also encountered in literature when other silicate liquid properties are modeled: (1) the density model of liquids is developed only for natural silicate liquids, excluding simple synthetic melts (Lange, 1997; Lange and Carmichael, 1987), (2) the thermodynamic model of silicate m”
Near-solidus Melting of the Shallow Upper Mantle: Partial Melting Experiments on Depleted Peridotite (2003, methodology): “…models have been developed for calculating the compositions of partial melts of peridotite under upper-mantle conditions (e.g. McKenzie & Bickle, 1988; Niu & Batiza, 1991; Kinzler & Grove, 1992a, 1992b; Langmuir et al., 1992; Ghiorso & Sack, 1995; Kinzler, 1997; Ghiorso et al., 2002; Longhi, 2002).”
Harzburgite melting with and without H2O: Experimental data and predictive modeling (2004, background): “[43] Table 6 compares the accuracy of the current model with existing predictive melting models (HARZ [this study], MELTS [Ghiorso and Sack, 1995], pMELTS [Ghiorso et al., 2002], BATCH [Longhi, 2002]).”
The geodynamic equation of state: What and how (2009, result): “Phase notation and solution model sources: olivine and garnet (O and Gt) [Holland and Powell, 1998], plagioclase (Pl) [Fuhrman and Lindsley, 1988], orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene (Opx and Cpx) [Holland and Powell, 1996], melt [ Ghiorso et al., 2002 ]; end-member thermodynamic data for the melt mode”
Fate of Pyroxenite-derived Melts in the Peridotitic Mantle: Thermodynamic and Experimental Constraints (2012, methodology): “…by guest on 29 July 2018 discrepancies are due to the limitations of pMELTS as discussed by Ghiorso et al. (2002), and are consistent with the overestimation of Cpx production in the calculations compared with the experiments (see above),…”
GEODYNAMICS AND RATE OF VOLCANISM ON MASSIVE EARTH-LIKE PLANETS (2008, background): “In order of increasing complexity, they are those of McKenzie (1984) as extended in McKenzie & Bickle (1988) (henceforth MB88), Katz et al. (2003) (henceforth K03), and (for plate tectonic models only) Ghiorso et al. (2002), with the Smith & Asimow (2005) front-end (henceforth pMELTS).”
Thermodynamics of mantle minerals - II. Phase equilibria (2011, methodology): “The Legendre transformation has been described in terms of the mathematically equivalent operation of handling the Birch–Murnaghan equation of state via integration by parts, that is, ∫ V dP = − ∫ PdV + PV (Fei et al. 1990; Ghiorso et al. 2002).”
Petrolog3: Integrated software for modeling crystallization processes (2011, methodology): “The most popular algorithms include MELTS and its derivatives [e.g., Ghiorso et al. , 1983, 2002; Smith and Asimow , 2005], based on the principle of minimization of free energy, and COMAGMAT [ Frenkel and Ariskin , 1984; Ariskin et al. , 1993], based on the principle of pseudoliquidus temperatures…”
Similar V/Sc Systematics in MORB and Arc Basalts: Implications for the Oxygen Fugacities of their Mantle Source Regions (2005, methodology): “We used the pMELTS thermodynamic algorithm (Ghiorso et al., 2002) to model the melting stoichiometry at 1 5GPa (Lee et al., 2003).”