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Update: abstract deadline extended to March 1 🥳

We are pleased to announce the 2023 winner of the Barrow Award as Prof. Frank Spear! Read the full statement on our website >> metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/ann…

A tor-rific end to the Cambridge Earth Sciences Part 1B field trip to Cornwall! The final outcrop of the trip was a ‘G3a’ part of the Cornubian composite batholith, complete with Kfs megacrysts and some lovely tourmaline clots 🤩

Many thanks to Cornish Lithium and Imerys PA for showing Cambridge Earth Sciences students around their lithium and kaolin operations respectively; the Cornubian batholith not only provides these key raw materials, but also copper, tin, tungsten…thank you Variscan orogen 🙏

Finally, no trip to Cornwall is complete without the obligatory recumbent folding of Cambridge Earth Sciences students and demonstrators!

Another fieldwork staple: an attempt at a Goretex rainbow (while on a very soggy ophiolite) Cambridge Earth Sciences

Wonderful to see so many metamorphic petrologists at the annual Metamorphic Studies Group RiP conference! Thanks to Richard Palin and MineralogicalSociety for organising, ZEISS Microscopy for sponsorship and St Anne's College for hosting. See you all next year 🏔️

It was an honour to present the 2023 Metamorphic Studies Group Barrow Award to the big blue book icon, Prof. Frank Spear. Sadly didn’t get to test his equally legendary table football skills…hopefully next time!

Had a great time at the Metamorphic Studies Group meeting with the Cambridge Earth Sciences team! Heard about so much cool research and presented my ongoing work on the Midlands Microcraton - including early outputs from geochronology, funded by Yorkshire Geological Society.

A reminder that the latest round of MSG student and early career bursaries closes on 30th April! See here for more details, including how to apply: metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/funding/

Save the date! Get excited! 🎉 MSG 2024 will be held in beautiful Bristol next March 27th and 28th, with an optional one-day kinetics workshop on March 26th. More info to come soon, and see you there! 🌎🌏🌍

Great to present @goldschmidt2023 this morning as part of a trio of Cambridge Earth Sciences 0830 talks!

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New paper alert 📢 We present a method for determining granite emplacement temperature and timescale using their #metamorphic aureoles; results show the Skiddaw granite was emplaced as a solid diapir! Cambridge Earth Sciences Scientific Reports #slurry nature.com/articles/s4159…

📢 New paper 📢 reasoning that modern-style continental tectonics has existed since at least the early Archean and TTG petrogenesis simply represents this style of tectonics superimposed upon a higher rate of radiogenic heating sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨📢Registration for MSG 2024 and the kinetics workshop has been extended to February 23rd! Don't forget to submit your abstracts for then as well. We look forward to seeing you there! Register and submit abstracts here 👉metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/msg-rip-2024/

Another fantastic Metamorphic Studies Group research in progress meeting; thanks to all those that attended, to ZEISS Microscopy for sponsoring and Freya George for organising! Congratulations again to Pierre Lanari for being the fifth recipient of the Barrow award too 🥳

This summer, @cbeardgeo Dr Carrie Soderman Owen Weller-Gibbs headed to Greenland to investigate how #criticalmetals form in alkaline igneous rocks. Look at the cool minerals they encountered: pegmatite veins containing amphiboles, feldspars and blood-red eudialyte. #igneous #petrology

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 🤩

Very excited that the first application study (with Owen Weller-Gibbs) of our new thermodynamic model for alkaline silicate igneous rocks has just been published! We identify a key fractionation pressure to form Qz and Ne-bearing rocks, and look at implications for their REEs budgets.