Welcome to pyMELTScalc’s documentation!

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Using MELTS
  • Using MAGEMin
• Citing pyMELTScalc
• Reporting bugs/issues with the code
• Installation
  • Step 1 - Install Python
  • Step 2 - Download the alphaMELTS for MATLAB/Python source files
  • Step 3 - Install pyMELTScalc
  • Using MAGEMin
  • Updating

Melt liquidus temperature

• Using MELTS to find the liquidus temperature

Crystallisation calculations

• Modelling liquid-line-of-descents

Melting calculations

• Adiabatic Decompression melting of peridotite and pyroxenite mantle sources
  • Examining the influence of source lithology on melting behaviours
  • Utilizing outputs to calculate the SCSS of mantle melts

MELTS barometry

• MELTS geobarometry part 1 - quartz - 2-feldspar saturated rhyolites
  • How does parallel processing affect calculation speeds?
• MELTS geobarometry part 2 - plagioclase - 2-pyroxene saturated magmas