Dean C. Presnall

Research.com Recognitions

• 1999 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America

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Best Publications

• Liquidus phase relations on the join diopside-forsterite-anorthite from 1 atm to 20 kbar: Their bearing on the generation and crystallization of basaltic magma

  D. C. Presnall;Selena A. Dixon;James R. Dixon;T. H. O'Donnell

  532
  Citations

• The Continuum of Primary Carbonatitic-Kimberlitic Melt Compositions in Equilibrium with Lherzolite: Data from the System CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 at 6 GPa

  John A. Dalton;Dean C. Presnall

  516
  Citations

• Generation of Mid-ocean Ridge Tholeiites

  D. C. Presnall;J. R. Dixon;T. H. O'donnell;S. A. Dixons

  513
  Citations

• Continuous Gradations among Primary Carbonatitic, Kimberlitic, Melilititic, Basaltic, Picritic, and Komatiitic Melts in Equilibrium with Garnet Lherzolite at 3–8 GPa

  Gudmundur H. Gudfinnsson;Dean C. Presnall

  446
  Citations

• Carbonatitic melts along the solidus of model lherzolite in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 from 3 to 7 GPa

  John A. Dalton;Dean C. Presnall

  348
  Citations

• Melting Behavior of Simplified Lherzolite in the System CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-Na2O from 7 to 35 kbar

  Michael J. Walter;Dean C. Presnall

  231
  Citations

• Generation of mid-ocean ridge basalts at pressures from 1 to 7 GPa

  Dean C Presnall;Dean C Presnall;Gudmundur H Gudfinnsson;Michael J Walter

  223
  Citations

• Changes in electrical conductivity of a synthetic basalt during melting

  D. C. Presnall;C. L. Simmons;H. Porath

  183
  Citations

• A mass proportion method for calculating melting reactions and application to melting of model upper mantle lherzolite

  Michael J. Walter;Thomas W. Sisson;Dean C. Presnall

  151
  Citations

• The geometrical analysis of partial fusion

  D. C. Presnall

  146
  Citations

• Liquidus Phase Relations in the CaO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2 System at 3.0 GPa: the Aluminous Pyroxene Thermal Divide and High-Pressure Fractionation of Picritic and Komatiitic Magmas

  Cheney S. Milholland;Dean C. Presnall

  137
  Citations

• The system Mg2SiO4-SiO2 at pressures up to 25 kilobars

  Cheng-Hong Chen;Cheng-Hong Chen;Dean C. Presnall

  130
  Citations

• Phase Diagrams of Earth-Forming Minerals

  Dean C. Presnall

  127
  Citations

• The join forsterite-diopside-iron oxide and its bearing on the crystallization of basaltic and ultramafic magmas

  D. C. Presnall

  126
  Citations

• Fusion Relations in the System NaAlSi3O8-CaAl2Si2O8-KAlSi3O8-SiO2-H2O and Generation of Granitic Magmas in the Sierra Nevada Batholith

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  121
  Citations

• Melting of enstatite (MgSiO3) from 10 to 16.5 GPa and the forsterite (Mg2SiO4)‐majorite (MgSiO3) eutectic at 16.5 GPa: Implications for the origin of the mantle

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  114
  Citations

• Alumina content of enstatite as a geobarometer for plagioclase and spinel lherzolites

  D. C. Presnall

  95
  Citations

• Melting relations of model lherzolite in the system CaO‐MgO‐Al2O3‐SiO2 at 2.4–3.4 GPa and the generation of komatiites

  Gudmundur H. Gudfinnsson;Dean C. Presnall

  94
  Citations

• Composition and depth of origin of primary mid-ocean ridge basalts

  D. C. Presnall;J. D. Hoover

  92
  Citations

• Melting of forsterite, Mg2SiO4, from 9.7 to 16.5 GPa

  Dean C. Presnall;Michael J. Walter

  91
  Citations

• Melting Behaviour of Model Lherzolite in the System CaO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–FeO at 0·7–2·8 GPa

  Gudmundur H. Gudfinnsson;Dean C. Presnall

  83
  Citations

• A method for studying iron silicate liquids under reducing conditions with negligible iron loss

  Dean C. Presnall;Norma L. Brenner

  77
  Citations