Dian Ji
@dianji.bsky.social
PhD student at Rice, MS from UTK. High temperature geochemistry and igneous petrology explorer 🌋. Fishing enthusiast 🎣. He/him
What powered the Moon's late-stage volcanism? 🌙🌋
Our experiments & modeling published in EPSL with Rajdeep Dasgupta show garnet in the young lunar mantle, pointing to deep fertile material by mantle overturn or prolonged mantle convection.
@riceeeps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...
Our experiments & modeling published in EPSL with Rajdeep Dasgupta show garnet in the young lunar mantle, pointing to deep fertile material by mantle overturn or prolonged mantle convection.
@riceeeps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...
May 29, 2026 at 4:10 AM
What powered the Moon's late-stage volcanism? 🌙🌋
Our experiments & modeling published in EPSL with Rajdeep Dasgupta show garnet in the young lunar mantle, pointing to deep fertile material by mantle overturn or prolonged mantle convection.
@riceeeps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...
Our experiments & modeling published in EPSL with Rajdeep Dasgupta show garnet in the young lunar mantle, pointing to deep fertile material by mantle overturn or prolonged mantle convection.
@riceeeps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...
Reposted by Dian Ji
We have a new paper. This one is about generating highly differentiated, low F melts through a series of interconnected magma chambers, each undergoing only moderate crystallization (moderate F), with the effects compounding after each successive staging.
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May 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
We have a new paper. This one is about generating highly differentiated, low F melts through a series of interconnected magma chambers, each undergoing only moderate crystallization (moderate F), with the effects compounding after each successive staging.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New work challenges the idea of a “wet” Moon🌙💧
Our GCA study, with Raj and @cintylee.bsky.social, shows water-rich lunar melt inclusions form via magmatic recharge, instead of requiring a wet mantle! The Moon may still be strongly volatile-depleted. @riceeeps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
Our GCA study, with Raj and @cintylee.bsky.social, shows water-rich lunar melt inclusions form via magmatic recharge, instead of requiring a wet mantle! The Moon may still be strongly volatile-depleted. @riceeeps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
April 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
New work challenges the idea of a “wet” Moon🌙💧
Our GCA study, with Raj and @cintylee.bsky.social, shows water-rich lunar melt inclusions form via magmatic recharge, instead of requiring a wet mantle! The Moon may still be strongly volatile-depleted. @riceeeps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
Our GCA study, with Raj and @cintylee.bsky.social, shows water-rich lunar melt inclusions form via magmatic recharge, instead of requiring a wet mantle! The Moon may still be strongly volatile-depleted. @riceeeps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
Want to know the lunar sulfur evolution from Apollo to Chang’e-5 mantle? Check out our new GCA paper! A new sulfur content at sulfide saturation (SCSS) model is also attached that is suitable for sulfides with variable metal-sulfur ratio.
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
March 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Want to know the lunar sulfur evolution from Apollo to Chang’e-5 mantle? Check out our new GCA paper! A new sulfur content at sulfide saturation (SCSS) model is also attached that is suitable for sulfides with variable metal-sulfur ratio.
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
Reposted by Dian Ji
Where and how the lavas in farside South Pole were generated? In this work led by Rice Uni, together with Raj Dasgupta @dianji.bsky.social @cintylee.bsky.social and collaborators, we explore the possibilities with a petrological approach 1/5
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Mantle Melting Conditions of Mare Lavas on South Pole–Aitken Basin of Lunar Farside
Remote sensing data of the South Pole–Aitken basin are utilized to estimate lunar mantle-derived primitive melt compositions
Calculations of multiple saturation of primary melts with mantle miner...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Where and how the lavas in farside South Pole were generated? In this work led by Rice Uni, together with Raj Dasgupta @dianji.bsky.social @cintylee.bsky.social and collaborators, we explore the possibilities with a petrological approach 1/5
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Dian Ji
Tomorrow at 8:55, waterway 5, I will talk about our recent work about at what conditions the farside mantle melted to generate the surface lavas of South Pole-Aitken basin #LPSC2025
March 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Tomorrow at 8:55, waterway 5, I will talk about our recent work about at what conditions the farside mantle melted to generate the surface lavas of South Pole-Aitken basin #LPSC2025
What is the origin of the young Chang’e-5 mare basalts? -Tomorrow (Monday) at 2:50 in the #LPSC2025 Waterway 1, I'll present a joint study that reveals the presence of garnet in the young lunar mantle, as a consequence of lunar cumulate mantle overturn.
March 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
What is the origin of the young Chang’e-5 mare basalts? -Tomorrow (Monday) at 2:50 in the #LPSC2025 Waterway 1, I'll present a joint study that reveals the presence of garnet in the young lunar mantle, as a consequence of lunar cumulate mantle overturn.
How did S inventory evolve in the lunar mantle? - Tomorrow (Friday) morning Board 3015 at #AGU24, I'll present a new model designed for lunar fO2, that can calculate the S solubility of silicate melts in equilibrium with sulfides of different metal/sulfur, and its application to the lunar mantle.
December 12, 2024 at 2:26 PM
How did S inventory evolve in the lunar mantle? - Tomorrow (Friday) morning Board 3015 at #AGU24, I'll present a new model designed for lunar fO2, that can calculate the S solubility of silicate melts in equilibrium with sulfides of different metal/sulfur, and its application to the lunar mantle.