| Description | Working file entitled 'Melting (10) 1/91-1/92', relating to the papers: O'Nions, R K & D McKenzie, "Estimates of mantle thorium/uranium ratios from Th, U and Pb isotopic abundances in basaltic melts", 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A', vol 342 (1993), pp65-77, and White, R and D McKenzie & R K O’Nions, "Oceanic crustal thickness from seismic measurements and rare earth element inversions", 'Journal of Geophysical Research', vol 97 (1992), pp19683-19715.
File comprises: manuscript notes and equations, December 1989-June 1992; copies of published academic papers by others on related subjects, and bibliographic references, 1990-1992; referee report and notes for paper by McKenzie "Decompression Heating of Wet Melts", submitted to 'Earth and Planetary Science Letters', May-June 1992; computer generated data sets and plots, April 1990-July 1992; correspondence with fellow academics/geologists generally on the subject of McKenzie's research, or seeking McKenzie's opinion on their respective work, August 1989-July 1992; letter from Chris Hawkesworth, Department of Earth Sciences, Open University, Buckinghamshire, England, and editor of 'Earth and Planetary Science Letters', forwarding three negative referee reports for the O'Nions and McKenzie paper, 13 February 1992; letter from Robert 'Bob' White, forwarding on copies of comments from fellow academics on their joint paper "Oceanic crustal thickness from seismic measurements and rare earth element inversions", 30 January 1992; letters between McKenzie and Robert 'Bob' White concerning contents of the paper "Oceanic crustal thickness from seismic measurements and rare earth element inversions", but including congratulations on McKenzie being awarded the Royal Medal, July-August 1991; printed abstracts from the Royal Society discussion meeting 'The Behaviour and Influence of Fluids in Subduction Zones', held 8-9 November 1990, which has been annotated with notes by McKenzie. |