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EarthChem highlighted in recent Nature call to make all scientific data FAIR
June 2019. A recent comment by Stall et al., in Nature urges all scientific disciplines to follow the Geosciences and demand best practices for publishing and data sharing. The comment highlights the efforts of the… Read More
EarthChem Newsletter, February 2019, Vol 1
February 2019. This newsletter summarizes new features and improvements at EarthChem as well as recent community engagement and featured datasets. To subscribe to future quarterly newsletters please click here.
Building a Global Network of Geochemical Data (AGU Town Hall)
December 2018. Please join us December 11th at AGU for a one hour town hall discussing the development of geochemical data standards and ideas for a global geochemical network.

Grove & Brown (2018) Magmatic processes leading to compositional diversity in igneous rocks: Bowen (1928) revisited
Grove and Brown present a perspective on the evolution of thought on the origin of compositional diversity in igneous rocks. They explore the difficulty Bowen faced due to a paucity of data and… Read More
McCubbin et al., (2017) A Low O/Si Ratio on the Surface of Mercury: Evidence for Silicon Smelting?
The MESSENGER spacecraft, “collected data providing important insights into the structure, chemical makeup, and compositional diversity of Mercury.” The atypically low ratios of these Mercury… Read More
Greber et al., (2017) Titanium isotopic evidence for felsic crust and plate tectonics 3.5 billion years ago
Using the titanium isotopic make up of shales, Greber et al. develop a proxy for reconstructing the SiO2 content of shale source rocks and thus the chemical composition of emerged crust. From this… Read More