With MUSH-OCEAN we intend to make a breakthrough in our understanding of oceanic magmatic systems that represent ~2/3 of the Earth’s igneous budget. With MUSH-OCEAN we will provide brand new constraints on 1/ temporal, spatial, and thermal relations between magma (s.s.) bodies (with <40 % crystals, thus mobilizable for e.g., seafloor eruptions), and mushy igneous reservoirs (>40 % crystals, thus not mobilizable), 2/ the kinematics of melt collection and migration in mushy reservoirs, 3/ the igneous processes that govern mush evolution, and thus the overall differentiation of oceanic igneous reservoirs. Beyond oceanic systems, MUSH-OCEAN will eventually greatly improve our understanding of mushy igneous systems from other geodynamic contexts.
Lola Baudry just started her PhD at ISTO under the supervision of Laurent Arbaret, Aneta Slodczyk, Jacques Précigout, and Rémi Champallier. She will study experimentally the kinematics of mafic magma-mush…
Jie Chen started a 2-year post-doc position at ENS-Paris in collaboration with Jean-Arthur Olive. In the frame of MUSH-OCEAN project, Jie will elaborate and conduct thermal numerical simulations to provide…
David Jousselin, Lydéric France, and Nicolas Estèves (a PhD student from CRPG working on granitic plutonic bodies emplacement and evolution) visited the University of Cambridge University to launch a collaboration…
Lola Baudry just started her PhD at ISTO under the supervision of Laurent Arbaret, Aneta Slodczyk, Jacques Précigout, and Rémi Champallier. She will study experimentally the kinematics of mafic magma-mush domains. Her toolbox will include the Paterson press from ISTO. Welcome onboard Lola!
Jie Chen started a 2-year post-doc position at ENS-Paris in collaboration with Jean-Arthur Olive. In the frame of MUSH-OCEAN project, Jie will elaborate and conduct thermal numerical simulations to provide new constraints on the thermal evolution with time of oceanic igneous reservoirs. He will more specifically explore the melt-mush relations in such systems, and better … Read more
David Jousselin, Lydéric France, and Nicolas Estèves (a PhD student from CRPG working on granitic plutonic bodies emplacement and evolution) visited the University of Cambridge University to launch a collaboration with Pr. Marian Holness (fellow of the Royal Society) in the frame of MUSH-OCEAN project. The objective was to learn how to measure dihedral angles … Read more
Most of the actors of MUSH-OCEAN project gathered together at CRPG (Nancy, France) the 22th-23rd of January 2024 for our kick-off meeting. We had 13 scientific presentations over the two days, and several general and more technical discussions between the 15 participants.
Cloé Falc’hun just started her PhD at CRPG under the supervision of Lydéric France (CRPG), Pierre Bouilhol (CRPG), and Muriel Laubier (LMV). Her project entitled “Magma-mush dynamics during oceanic crust accretion” will allow her to conduct thermodynamic models of the melt-mush reactions, and to study in further details natural samples with the aim to better … Read more
Marine Boulanger (LMV, Clermont, France) who work actively on MUSH-OCEAN project got a 2-year fellowship at LMV. Her project will focus on melt-rock and melt-mush reactions in oceanic lithosphere with an experimental petrology approach. Congratulations Marine!
MUSH-OCEAN project has been funded in 2023. The main project is funded by the French ANR program, along with a PhD funded by Université de Lorraine, and a post-doctoral fellowship funded by ClerVolc. MUSH-OCEAN is a 4-partner project involving CRPG (Nancy, France), ENS (Paris, France), ISTO (Orléans, France), and LMV (Clermont-Ferrand, France).