Auxiliary Material for Paper 2008GC002057

Petrology of some oceanic island basalts: PRIMELT2.XLS software for primary magma calculation

C. Herzberg
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA (herzberg@rci.rutgers.edu)

P. D. Asimow
Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

Herzberg, C., and P. D. Asimow (2008), Petrology of some oceanic island basalts: PRIMELT2.XLS software for primary magma calculation, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, XXXXXX, doi:10.1029/2008GC002057.

Introduction

The primary magma calculations described in this paper are implemented in a publicly available Microsoft Excel workbook called PRIMELT2.XLS, posted as an online supplement to this paper. Please note that this workbook uses Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros for several of the iterative calculations. As such, it is incompatible with Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh, which does not support VBA macros. There may be other incompatibility issues that we are not aware of, but it has been tested on Microsoft Windows XP 2002 using Microsoft Office 2004 and on MacOS 10.4 and 10.5 using Microsoft Office 2004. A user guide is provided in Appendix A2 on implementation of PRIMELT2.XLS.