DERTS student research highlighted by American Geophysical Union
16 May 2022
Work by DERTS PhD student Natasha Barrett, on Earth's most melt-depleted mantle peridotites was featured by the American Geophysical Union E-publication EOS recently. These enigmatic rocks, from Papua New Guinea require special conditions to extract very large amounts of partial melt from them, likely in multiple stages. The rocks bear witness to ancient melting events, much older than the final event that led to their extraction from the mantle, to eventually form some of the remote highlands in the Pauan rainforest. Natasha is now pursuing post-doctoral studies at the University of Copenhagen.