CCFS 2018 - Contents

2018 Annual Report

Appendices

1. Flagship programs aims and progress for 2018

2. CCFS workplan 2019

3. Independently funded basic research projects

4. Participants List

5. 2018 publications

6. 2018 abstract titles

7. CCFS visitors

8. Research funding

9. Standard performance indicators

10. CCFS postgraduate opportunities

Contact details and Glossary

Front Cover: These balls and dendrites of native vanadium are enclosed in crystals of hibonite (CaAl₁₂O₁₉) ejected from Cretaceous volcanoes on Mt Carmel in northern Israel. The balls nucleated as droplets on the faces of growing hibonite crystals, when a vanadium melt became immiscible with the Ca-Al silicate melt that was crystallising hibonite, grossite (CaAl₄O₇) and spinel, in a magma chamber near the crust-mantle boundary. The dendrites grew out into the silicate melt, and were overgrown by the hibonite. The presence of vanadium melts testifies to the most reduced conditions yet recognised on Earth, equivalent to the oxygen fugacity of the early solar nebula, where the atmosphere was dominated by hydrogen. See Research highlight.

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Cover and Report design by Sally-Ann Hodgekiss.