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Generating High Mg-numbers and Chemical Diversity in Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite (TTG) Magmas during Melting and Melt Segregation in the Continental Crust

Combines novel melting experiments and numerical modelling to demonstrate that batch and fractional melting models and experiments, used ubiquitously in geochemical studies, may be in error due to their omission of key physical processes that occur during separation of melt from mush. This has profound implications for our understanding of igneous processes. The work led to Jackson’s keynote presentation at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group, an invited presentation at the 2012 American Geophysical Union meeting, and collaboration with Bristol University (Sparks and Blundy) on a related £0.4M Leverhulme-funded project (Grant ref: F/00 182/AY).