Publications

  • Spring I.^, Mallik A., Kirk J., Moitra P., Hervig R., and Borg L. Trace Element Analyses of Plagioclase from Troctolite 76535 and Implications for Mg-suite Petrogenesis. submitted, Meteoritics and Planetary Science (preprint of submitted version)

  • Rebaza A.M.^, Holman B* , Mallik A., Cooperdock E.H.G. The Journey of Sediment-Rich Mélanges in Subduction Zones. submitted, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (preprint of submitted version)

  • Ballmer M., Spaargaren R. , Mallik A. , Cabeza-Cordoba A.M. , Nakajima M. , Vilella K. Present-day Earth Mantle Structure set up by Crustal Pollution of the Basal Magma Ocean. under review, Science Advances

  • Andrews-Hannah J., Bottke W. , Broquet A. , Evans A. , Gowman G. , Johnson B., Keane J. , Levin J., Mallik A., Marchi S. , Moruzzi S. , Roy A.^, Wakita S. The South Pole-Aitken impact basin as a window into early lunar evolution. under review, Nature

  • Roy A.^, Mallik A., Bremner P.B., Diamond M.R., Haviland H.H., Hervig R., Goepfert T. Quantifying the Contributions of Heat-Producing Elements towards the Present-Day Selenotherm through Partitioning Experiments and Conductive Thermal Modeling. under review, Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets (preprint of an earlier submitted version)

  • Roy, A.^, Mallik, A., Hanna, K. D., Goepfert, T. J., & Hervig, R. L. (2025). Miyake-jima anorthite: A lunar crustal material analog. American Mineralogist, 110(1), 154–170. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2023-9122-a

  • Rebaza A.M.^, Mallik A., Cooperdock E.H.G., Holman B* (2024). The fate of ultramafic-rich mélanges in cold to hot subduction zones: Implications for diapirism (or not) and chemical geodynamics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 647, 119020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119020

  • Bowman, E. E.^, Mallik, A., & Ducea, M. N. (2024). Partial melting of arclogite and petrogenesis of alkaline-silicate complexes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 645, 118952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118952

  • Mallik A., Rebaza AM.^, Kapp P., Li L, Du Y., Shams AA., Cooperdock EHG. (2023). The importance of metabasic rocks in deep nitrogen cycling: Insights from amphibolite and epidote-blueschists from the Qiangtang Metamorphic Belt, Central Tibet. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 361, 265–275 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.10.007

  • Rebaza, A.M.^, Mallik, A., Straub, S.M. (2023). Multiple episodes of rock-melt reaction at the slab-mantle interface: Formation of high silica primary magmas in intermediate to hot subduction zones. J. Petrol. 64, egad011. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egad011

  • Mallik A. (2022) Diamonds as windows to deep Earth. Nat. Geosci. doi:10.1038/s41561-022-01064-4.

  • Mallik A., Schwinger S., Roy A^, Moitra P. (2022) Controls on determining the bulk water content of the Moon. Meteorit Planet Sci, 57: 2143-2157. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13921

  • Yanay N., Wang Z., Dettman D.L., Quade J., Huntington K.W., Schauer A.J., Nelson D.D., McManus J. B., Thirumalai K., Sakai S., Rebaza A.M^, Mallik A. (2022) Rapid and precise measurement of carbonate clumped isotopes using laser spectroscopy. Science Advances. 8, eabq0611.

  • Ducea, M. N., Currie, C. A., Balica, C., Lazar, I., Mallik, A., Petrescu, L., & Vlasceanu, M. (2022) Diapirism of carbonate platforms subducted into the upper mantle. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G50000.1

  • Haviland H. , Bremner P. , Mallik, A., Diamond, M., Panovska S., Lock, S. (2021) Exploring the Sensitivity of Lunar Interior Structure from Geophysical and Geochemical Constraints. Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr), doi: 10.1002/essoar.10506842

  • Mallik, A., Lambart, S., & Chin, E. J. (2021). Tracking the Evolution of Magmas from Heterogeneous Mantle Sources to Eruption. In Mantle Convection and Surface Expressions (pp. 151–177), doi: 10.1002/9781119528609.ch6

  • Yaxley G., Ghosh S., Kiseeva K., Mallik A., Spandler C., Thomson A., Walter M. (2019)  CO2-rich melts in the Earth (Deep Carbon: Past to Present, 129 - 162, Cambridge University Press, doi: 10.1017/9781108677950.006)

  • Mallik A., Ejaz T., Shcheka S., Garapic G. (2019)  A petrologic study on the effect of mantle overturn: Implications for evolution of the lunar interior. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 250, 238-250, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.02.014

  • Mallik A., Li Y., Wiedenbeck M. (2018) Nitrogen evolution within the Earth’s atmosphere-mantle system assessed by recycling in subduction zones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 482, 556-566, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.045

  • Mallik A., Dasgupta R., Tsuno K., Nelson J. (2016) Effects of water, depth and temperature on partial melting of mantle wedge fluxed by hydrous sediment melt in subduction zones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 195, 226-243, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.08.018

  • Mallik A., Nelson J., Dasgupta R. (2015) Mantle wedge hybridization by subducted sediment-derived hydrous rhyolitic melt at 2-3 GPa – Implications for generation of ultrapotassic magmas in convergent margins. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 169, 1–24, doi: 10.1007/s00410-015-1139-2

  • Garapic G., Mallik A., Dasgupta R., Jackson M.G. (2015) Oceanic lavas sampling the high 3He/4He mantle reservoir: Primitive, depleted, or re-enriched? American Mineralogist, doi: 10.2138/am-2015-5154

  • Mallik A., Dasgupta R. (2014) Effect of variable CO2 on eclogite-derived andesite and lherzolite reaction at 3 GPa—Implications for mantle source characteristics of alkalic ocean island basalts, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 15, doi:10.1002/2014GC005251

  • Mallik A., Dasgupta R. (2013) Reactive infiltration of MORB-eclogite derived carbonated silicate melt into fertile peridotite at 3 GPa and genesis of alkalic magmas. Journal of Petrology 54, 2267–2300, doi:10.1093/petrology/egt047

  • Dasgupta, R., Mallik, A., Tsuno, K., Withers, A. C., Hirth, G., Hirschmann, M. M. (2013) Carbon-dioxide-rich silicate melt in the Earth’s upper mantle. Nature 493, 211-215, doi:10.1038/ nature11731

  • Mallik A., Dasgupta R. (2012) Reaction between MORB-eclogite derived melts and fertile peridotite and generation of ocean island basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 329–330, 97–108, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.02.007

* - Undergraduate student

^ - Graduate student

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