A diamond inclusion has revealed a new mineral, davemaoite, as well as hints about the workings of our planet’s interior.
Earth’s interior
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A Simple Recipe for Making the First Continental Crust
Laboratory experiments serendipitously revealed a rock-forming process that might explain how the first continental crust formed on Earth—and possibly on Mars.
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New Thermodynamic Model for Computing Mantle Mineralogy
A newly developed open-access software package called MMA-EoS can calculate whole mantle mineralogy in multicomponent systems by Gibbs energy minimization.
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Dry Minerals in the Lower Mantle
Laboratory-made perovskite helps explain how water is distributed inside the Earth.