Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Piccoli, F., Ague, J. J., Chu, X., Tian, M., Brovarone, A. V., 2021: Field-based evidence for intra-slab high-permeability channel formation at eclogite-facies conditions during subduction, accepted for Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.

  • Hakim, K., Bower, D. J., Tian, M., Deitrick, R., Auclair-Desrotour, P., Kitzmann, D., Dorn, C., Mezger, K., Heng, K., 2021: Lithologic Controls on Silicate Weathering Regimes of Temperate Planets, accepted for The Planetary Science Journal. arXiv: 2008.11620.

  • Tian, M., Katz, R. F., Rees Jones, D., May, D. A., 2019: Devolatilization of subducting slabs, Part II: volatile fluxes and storage, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 6199–6222.

  • Tian, M., Katz, R. F., Rees Jones, D., 2019: Devolatilization of subducting slabs, Part I: thermodynamic parameterization and open system effects, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 5667–5690.

  • Tian, M., Ague, J. J., Chu, X., Baxter, E. F., Dragovic, N., Chamberlain, C. P., Rumble III, D., 2018: The potential for metamorphic thermal pulses to develop during compaction-driven fluid flow, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, 232–256.

  • Tian, M., Ague, J. J., 2014: The impact of porosity waves on crustal reaction progress and CO2 mass transfer, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 390, 80–92.

  • Rees Jones, D., Katz, R.F., Tian, M., Rudge, J.F., 2018: Thermal impact of magmatism in subduction zones, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481, 73–79.

  • Chu, X., Ague, J.J., Tian, M., Baxter, E. F., Rumble III, D., Chamberlain, C. P., 2018: Testing for rapid thermal pulses in the crust by modeling the garnet growth-diffusion-resorption profiles in a UHT metamorphic "Hot Spot", New Hampshire, USA, Journal of Petrology, 59, 1939–1964.

  • Tao, R., Zhang, L., Tian, M., Zhu, J., Liu, J., Höfer, H., Stagno, V., Fei, Y, 2018: Formation of abiotic hydrocarbon from reduction of carbonate in subduction zones: Constraints from petrological observation and experimental simulation, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 239, 390–408.

  • Chu, X., Ague, J.J., Podladchikov, Y.Y., Tian, M., 2017: Ultrafast eclogite formation via melting-induced overpressure, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 479, 1–17.

  • Chu, X., Ague, J. J., Axler, J. A., Tian, M., 2016: Taconian retrograde eclogite from Northwest Connecticut and its tectonic implications, Lithos, 240, 276–294.

Papers in Progress

  • Tian, M., Ague, J. J., 2021: Compartmentalized Convection of Metamorphic Fluids during Crustal Compaction, in preparation.

Conference Presentations

  • Tian, M., Katz, R. F., Rees Jones, D., Shorttle, O., 2019: The effect of mantle volatile heterogeneity on trace-element variability of mid-ocean ridge basalts, oral presentation, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.

  • Tian, M., Katz, R. F., Rees Jones, D., May, D., 2019: An open-system model for coupled H2O and CO2 transport in subducting slabs, oral presentation, EGU Meeting, Vienna, Austria.

  • May, D., Rees Jones, D., Katz, R. F., Tian, M., 2018: Computational methods for two-phase flow, EGU Meeting, Vienna, Austria.

  • Tian, M., Katz, R. F., Rees Jones, D., May, D., 2017: Thermodynamic parameterization of subduction-zone devolatilization and application to quantify carbon fluxes from slab, poster presentation, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.

  • Katz, R. F., May, D., Rees Jones, D., Tian, M., 2017: The Subduction Framework Utilising Scientific computing (SubFUSc) — an open-source simulation tool for two-phase dynamics of subduction zones, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.

  • Rees Jones, D., Katz, R. F., May, D., Tian, M., Rudge J. F., 2017: The thermochemical, two-phase dynamics of subduction zones: results from new, fully coupled models, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.

  • Rees Jones, D., Katz, R. F., Rudge, J. F., Tian, M., 2016: Magmatism significantly alters the thermal structure of the wedge, AGU Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, USA.

  • Tian, M., Ague, J. J., 2014: Metamorphic thermal pulses caused by compaction-driven fluid flow, poster presentation, Goldschmidt Conference, Sacramento, CA, USA.

  • Tian, M., Ague, J. J., 2012: A numerical study of the impact of porosity waves on crustal reaction progress and CO2 mass transfer, poster presentation, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.