Anomalous viscosity of basaltic melt at mantle conditions constraining the timescales of the early magma oceans – Phys.org

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, along with their collaborators at Zhejiang University of Technology, China, and RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan, made significant advances in constraining the age of the early Earth’s magma oceans. The results were recently published in Nature Communications.
Transport properties like diffusivity and viscosity of melts dictated the evolution of the Earth’s early magma oceans. In this work, the authors have explored the pressur…

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