| Description | Working files principally relating to the paper: McKenzie, D, "Some remarks on the movement of small melt fractions in the mantle", 'Earth and Planetary Science Letters', vol 95 (1989), pp53-72. Also references to: White, R & D McKenzie, "Volcanism and rifting", 'Scientific American', vol 261 (1989), pp62-71.
File 1, entitled "Melting & compaction (7), 11/88-4/89. Mostly high K project", notably comprising: correspondence with fellow academics/geologists generally on the subject of McKenzie's paper "Some remarks on the movement of small melt fractions in the mantle" and his research, March 1989-February 1990; photocopy of Brey, G and T Kohler & K Nickel, "Geothermobarometry in natural four-phase lherzolites: Experiments from 10-60kb, new thermobarometers and application", 'Extended Abstracts, Workshop on Diamonds', 28th International Geological Congress, 15-16 July 1989, with added manuscript notes, plot and copy letter to Gerhard Brey from McKenzie querying some of the values used in the abtract, 25 September [1989]; copies and preprints of academic papers by others on related topics, 1977-1989; correspondence concerning the publication of the paper, including referee reports, March-July 1989; manuscript notes, equations, plots (both manuscript and computer generated) and data sets, December 1988-May 1989; letters concerning the proposal and subsequent publication of the paper: White, R & D McKenzie, "Volcanism and rifting", 'Scientific American', vol 261 (1989), pp62-71, February-April 1988 & September-October 1988; grant application (and covering letters) made to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for a joint research project "Dynamics and evolution of late Cenozoic sedimentary basins in Turkey", by McKenzie and Barry Scott, November 1988-January 1989, also NERC grant application for McKenzie's project "Generation and movement of small melt fractions", 24 November 1988.
File 2, entitled "Melting and compaction (8) 4/89-3/90", notably comprising: correspondence with fellow academics/geologists generally on the subject of McKenzie's research, or seeking McKenzie's opinion on their respective academic papers, May 1988-March 1990, including draft of Loper, David E & Kevin McCartney, "On Impacts as a Cause of Geomagnetic Field Reversals or Flood Basalt"s, October 1989; partial manuscript draft of a talk, possibly relating to a 1989 Melting Meeting of 'Dan's Clan' held at the Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, 11 November 1989 (programme included); draft outline for a research funding proposal "The Relationship between Asthenospheric Potential Temperature and Magmatism in the Indian Ocean" by David Latin, University of Edinburgh, with comments by McKenzie, 16 October 1989; manuscript notes and equations, 1989-1990; abstract of paper "Geophysical Properties of Fluid-Bearing Texturally Equilibrated Rocks", by McKenzie and M J Cheadle, [n.d.]; preprints and copies of academic papers by others on related subjects, 1975-1989; letter from Barry Scott, Geology Department, University of Leicester, England, concerning the rejection of the NERC grant application, and forwarding his Royal Society grant application, "The development of sedimentary basins in the extensional province of W Turkey", for McKenzie to support, 25 April 1989; notes of a conversation with Keith [?Cox or ?O'Nions], 20 February [1989]; programme for 'The Relationship between Magmatism and Sedimentary Basin Evolution', a joint meeting of the Petroleum Group and the Volcanic Studies Group of the Geological Society, held at Burlington House, 16 February 1989; computer generated data sets, plots and SUPERMAP charts, March 1989-March 1990; short typescript paper by McKenzie, '="The Generation and Extraction of Magma from the Crust and Mantle", January 1989; abstract of paper by McKenzie "Deep Melting Beneath Ridges Using Occam's Inversion", annotated by McKenzie 'not used 13/2/90]; two pages of rough plots and notes entitled, 'Notes about a conversation with Pete Wyllie at the GSA at St Louis 11/89 concerning Fluid, Melt Vapour'. |