Experimental demonstrations on the sources and conditions of mantle melting

The Earth’s chemical differentiation is largely the result of mantle melting and magma evolution.Our present-day knowledge of mantle melting and magma evolution owes much to experimental simulations carried out by a handful of experimental petrologists over the last*50 years.Professor David Green is one of these few pioneers,whose contributions are enormous and fundamental,and have laid the foundations for our current understanding of mantle melting at ocean ridges,above subduction zones and

The Earth＇s chemical differentiation is largely the result of mantle melting and magma evolution. Our present-day knowledge of mantle melting and magma evolution owes much to experimental simulations carried out by a handful of experimental petrologists over the last ~50 years. Professor David Green is one of these few pioneers, whose contributions are enormous and fundamental, and have laid the foundations for our current understanding of mantle melting at ocean ridges, above subduction zones and in intraplate settings on land and in the oceans. In this issue,