pyrolite-meltsutil

pyrolite-meltsutil is a pyrolite extension for working with alphaMELTS and its outputs.

The python package includes functions to install and run melts with specific configurations, to import output tables, and to visualise these results.

• On this site you can browse the API, or look through some of the usage examples.

• There’s also a quick installation guide and some notes on where the project is heading in the near future.

Note that this package is currently experimental and the project is not affiliated with alphaMELTS or related entities. For more information on these projects, see the alphaMELTS site and relevant references [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].

Note

This documentation is a work in progress and is updated regularly. Contact the maintainer with any specific questions/requests.

References

[1]

Ghiorso M. S. and Sack R. O. (1995). Chemical mass transfer in magmatic processes IV. A revised and internally consistent thermodynamic model for the interpolation and extrapolation of liquid-solid equilibria in magmatic systems at elevated temperatures and pressures. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 119, 197–212. doi: 10.1007/BF00307281

[2]

Ghiorso M. S., Hirschmann M. M., Reiners P. W. and Kress V. C. (2002). 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. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 3, 1–35. doi: 10.1029/2001GC000217

[3]

Asimow P. D., Dixon J. E. and Langmuir C. H. (2004). A hydrous melting and fractionation model for mid-ocean ridge basalts: Application to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near the Azores. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 5. doi: 10.1029/2003GC000568

[4]

Smith P. M. and Asimow P. D. (2005). Adiabat_1ph: A new public front-end to the MELTS, pMELTS, and pHMELTS models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 6. doi: 10.1029/2004GC000816

[5]

Thompson R. N., Riches A. J. V., Antoshechkina P. M., Pearson D. G., Nowell G. M., Ottley C. J., Dickin A. P., Hards V. L., Nguno A.-K. and Niku-Paavola V. (2007). Origin of CFB Magmatism: Multi-tiered Intracrustal Picrite–Rhyolite Magmatic Plumbing at Spitzkoppe, Western Namibia, during Early Cretaceous Etendeka Magmatism. J Petrology 48, 1119–1154. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egm012

[6]

Antoshechkina P. M., Asimow P. D., Hauri E. H. and Luffi P. I. (2010). Effect of water on mantle melting and magma differentiation, as modeled using Adiabat_1ph 3.0. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 53, V53C-2264.

[7]

Antoshechkina P. M. and Asimow P. D. (2010). Adiabat_1ph 3.0 and the MAGMA website: educational and research tools for studying the petrology and geochemistry of plate margins. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 41, ED41B-0644.