just a sleepy progress report

[kareina]

534 new words, 4 new figures. Over seven hours of uni-related tasks today, but some of that was a meeting with my advisor (very, very helpful, as always!), and attending the departmental seminar (can we metamorphic petrologists have a modelling program which is as user-friendly in its interface as the Petrolog-III program which Prof. Pavel Plechov of the Moscow State University, Russia spoke to us about? His models which minerals will crystallize out of a melt (or what composition of fluid will melt out of a solid), and has nice friendly buttons and drop-down menus for all of the input needed, including a button to "export to (or from) an Excel spreadsheet". This looks ever so much easier to use than the programs for modelling which metamorphic minerals will be in equilibrium at any given temperature-pressure-bulk rock composition. But then again, the crystallizing from a melt story is not as complex.)