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Corrigendum to: Melting of Peridotites through to Granites: a Simple Thermodynamic Model in the System KNCFMASHTOCr, and, a Thermodynamic Model for the Subsolidus Evolution and Melting of Peridotite.

Eleanor Green, T. J. B. Holland, Roger Powell, Owen Weller, Nicolas Riel

2025Journal of Petrology25 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract We have identified and corrected an algebraic error originally made in the formulation of the thermodynamic model for silicate melt in Holland et al. (2018), J. Petrol., 59, 881–900, article egy048. The error was propagated subsequently in Tomlinson & Holland (2021), J. Petrol., 62, 1–23, article egab012. Below we explain the algebraic correction, and describe the scale of its impact on typical calculations, which in many systems is likely to be within model uncertainty at worst, and negligible at best. We provide a correctly formulated re-calibration of the Holland et al. (2018) silicate melt model. In presenting illustrative calculations with this melt model, we take the opportunity to summarise the changes to the accompanying thermodynamic models for minerals that we have implemented over several publications since 2018.

Topics & Concepts

GeologyPeridotiteGeochemistryPartial meltingThermodynamicsMantle (geology)PhysicsGeological and Geochemical AnalysisHigh-pressure geophysics and materialsGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping