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Petrologist and Magmatologist
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In 2017, while mapping the chilled margins of the Stillwater Complex’s Banded Series, James Harris identified a previously unrecorded oscillatory zoning pattern in augite, evidence of repeated magma recharge pulses preserved over 2.7 billion years. That discovery recalibrated how we interpret crystallization intervals in layered intrusions and became foundational for NASA’s Artemis-era modeling of lunar magma ocean differentiation. He doesn’t treat rocks as static specimens but as time-resolved archives: each phenocryst carries pressure-temperature histories encoded in trace-element partitioning, each xenolith whispers mantle heterogeneity. His fieldwork spans Iceland’s neovolcanic zones, Tanzania’s Ngorongoro caldera floor, and drill cores from the Kola Superdeep Borehole, always with portable Raman spectrometer in hand and a habit of sketching melt inclusion geometries in waterproof notebooks. He speaks of magma not as fluid, but as a rheologically evolving system where crystal mush architecture governs eruption triggers, and he insists planetary evolution is written not in atmospheres or surfaces, but in the grain-scale textures of igneous rocks.
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