A new paper co-authored by Matej Pec, Ben Holtzman, Mark Zimmerman and David Kohlstedt on “The Influence of Lithology on Reactive Melt Flow Channelization” is published in GGG. We conducted a series of Darcy-flow type experiments at high pressures and temperatures and observed how feedback between reaction and melt flow lead to the development of high permeability channels. This process is thought to be important for melt extraction from the Earth’s mantle. Check it out! Below is a reconstruction of these channels from 3D tomography images.
