Dygert, N. and Liang, Y. Coupling among REE and HFSE but Decoupling with Ni during Melt Percolation and Melt-Rock Reaction in the Mantle: An example from a Dunite-Harzburgite- Lherzolite Sequence from Trinity Ophiolite (in prep).

Dygert, N., Liang, Y., Hess, P., (2013). The importance of melt TiO₂ in affecting high field strength element partitioning between Fe-Ti oxides and lunar picritic glass melts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.12.005.

Wang, C.G., Liang, Y., Xu, W.L. and Dygert, N. Interaction between Pyroxenite-Derived Melt and Peridotite: Laboratory dissolution experiments with Applications to Mineral Compositional Variations in Mantle Xenoliths from the North China Craton. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Submitted).

Dygert, N., Liang, Y., Hess P., 2013. An Experimental Study of REE and Other Trace Element Partitioning Between Augite and Fe-Rich Basalts: A Parameterized Model for Planetary Applications. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, XLIV, #1582.

Dygert, N., Meyers, C., Hirth, G. and Liang, Y., 2013. Weakness of Ilmenite Revealed by New Rheological Measurements with Implications for Lunar Cumulate Mantle Overturn. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, XLIV, #1591.

Dygert, N., Liang, Y., Hess P., 2012. The Effect of Melt TiO₂ on Fe-Ti Oxide-Picritic Basalt HFSE Partitioning: Parameterized Models, Lunar Applications. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, XLIII, #2033. Download the poster.

Dygert, N., Liang, Y., Kelemen, P., 2011. Trace element abundances in pyroxenes from a dunite-harzburgite-lherzolite sequence at the Trinity ophiolite: Evidence for multiple episodes of melt migration and melt-rock reaction. AGU Fall Meeting, V31-D2557. Download the poster.

Dygert, N., Liang, Y., 2011. Experimental Evidence for High Field Strength Incompatibility in Titaniferous Phases in Equilibrium with High Titanium Mare Basalts and Picritic Glass Melts. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, XLII, #1956.

Dygert, N., Liang, Y., 2010. Compaction driven melt localization in dunites and associated rocks in the mantle: Field observations and numerical experiments. AGU Fall Meeting, T23A-2229. Download the poster.

Yao, L., Dygert, N., Peterson, M., Sun, C., Wetzel, D., Liang, Y., 2010. “A bundle of columns” model for trace element fractionation during melting and melt migration in a vertically upwelling, chemically and lithologically heterogeneous mantle. AGU Fall Meeting, V11A-2258.

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