Excited to (finally!) share our new paper on sagduction within the Archean crust. Was it an important process? We think not! This was a really cool project to work on with Owen Weller-Gibbs and Alex Copley. Check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03…

📢🚨#newpaperalert 🤓 Interested in applying different thermometers to understand metamorphism across the lower continental crust? Check our #openacess article! We discuss pros and cons of different rock types and thermometers. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

⌚️U-Pb garnet dating could be your new best friend. See how Bartoli et al. (2024) recently used this novel geochronometer (with as low as 4 ppb U!) to fill gaps in the temperature-time record of high-grade metamorphic rocks in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone. academic.oup.com/petrology/arti…

#FellowFriday — Growing up during China's Cultural Revolution, Emeritus Prof Zheng-Xiang Li FAA (Curtin University) never expected to attend university. Now, he’s redefined our understanding of Earth’s internal mechanisms and of supercontinents.

Nearly 4 billion years old.. one of Earth’s oldest rocks. Amazing layering, but some mafic minerals and has suffered amphibolite grade metamorphism.. so.. POLL: a) Earth’s oldest sedimentary rock or b) Not sedimentary 🪨 🌍 💯 🤓

Do you study the lithosphere, its formation & evolution through time? Submit an abstract to theme 3 at #Goldschmidt2025 in Prague, more info: tinyurl.com/bdekatcv Abstract submission deadline 26 February: tinyurl.com/5fk8tff9 @EAG_ Geochemical Society

New paper alert - probing apatite chemistry as a pathfinder to tin and lithium mineralisation Earth & Environmental Science, St Andrews Martin Mangler link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Call for Abstracts: 30th Colloquium of African Geology hashtag#CAG30 Conference & Expo organized by Geological Society of Kenya (GSK) in conjunction with Geological Society of Africa (GSAf)

New in Elements: Birth and Growth of Minerals from Aqueous Solutions. The birth and growth of minerals from aqueous solutions is a ubiquitous process in both natural and engineered environments. Read more: t.ly/qEa_Y

The Tohoku earthquake was a 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust #earthquake with its epicenter off the coast of #Japan occurring on Friday March 11, 2011. The resulting tsunami claimed over 20.000 victims podbean.com/media/share/di…

Some parts of Earth’s mantle hold more water than others. New #AGUPubs research by scientists from NGI , PHAB Univ. of Oslo, and TGS investigates how these hydration levels may contribute to continental volcanism. eos.org/research-spotl…

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write nature.com/articles/s4158…

fO2 calculator app, now with geotherms! #Geology fo2.rses.anu.edu.au/fo2app/

Explore the latest issue of Elements: BIOMINERAL GEOCHEMISTRY: WINDOWS INTO PAST CLIMATES AND CALCIFICATION (April 2025; vol. 21, no. 2). Now available online and in print. elementsmagazine.org

Thrilled to see the first application of our new thermodynamic models for alkaline silicate systems by Dr Carrie Soderman! Not only explains co-genetic Qz and Ne normative melts but also shows ‘sweet spot’ for REE enrichment when crystallising just below the ~4 kbar tipping point 🤩

Nature research paper: Ru and W isotope systematics in ocean island basalts reveals core leakage go.nature.com/4kA8ESK

My kind of science: They found some forgotten proactinium in a back shelf, tried to make something out of it, got something different instead, and published this in Science Advances lol doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

New In Elements: Greenalite! Greenalite is an Fe(II)-serpentine mineral that was first identified in Lake Superior iron formations over 100 years ago, but it's true extent is only now being recognized with the advent of in-situ nanoscale techniques. More: bit.ly/4kV8iqp