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Details for Professor Michael Walter
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Michael Walter |
| Job title | Professor |
| Department | School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol |
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| Professional details | |
| Keywords | petrology experimental petrology geochemistry evolution the Earth planetary evolution mantle magma |
| Areas of expertise | My research interests are in high pressure-temperature experimental petrology, geochemistry, and mineral physics. Phase equilibrium, equation of state, and element partitioning data from high P-T experiments constrain modern theories for the origin and evolution of Earth and other planetary bodies. In recent years, my research has focused on several topics including: the differentiation of the mantle and core during an early magma ocean stage shortly after Earth accretion; and subsolidus lower-mantle phase relations and crystal chemistry; and the origin and evolution of deep-seated carbonatite magmas and mineral inclusions in diamond. |