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Since its inception in 2000, PetDB has supported a wide array of scientific endeavors, providing easy access to a comprehensive global dataset of geochemical data for mid-ocean ridge basalts and abyssal peridotites. PetDB has been cited in hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles as the source of data used to develop and test new hypotheses ranging from the chemical and mineralogical composition of Earth's mantle, to the generation and evolution of continental and oceanic crust, melt transport phenomena, to global geochemical seawater budgets.

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Booden, M.A., Smith, I.E.M., Black, P.M., and Mauk, J.L., 2011, Geochemistry of the Early Miocene volcanic succession of Northland, New Zealand, and implications for the evolution of subduction in the Southwest Pacific: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 199, p. 25-37. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.10.006

Frey, F.A., Pringle, M., Meleney, P., Huang, S., and Piotrowski, A., 2011, Diverse mantle sources for Ninetyeast Ridge magmatism: Geochemical constraints from basaltic glasses: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. In Press, Corrected Proof. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.051

Gomez-Tuena, A., Mori, L., Goldstein, S.L., and Perez-Arvizu, O., 2011, Magmatic diversity of western Mexico as a function of metamorphic transformations in the subducted oceanic plate: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 75, p. 213-241. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.09.029

Haase, K.M., Beier, C., Fretzdorff, S., Leat, P.T., Livermore, R.A., Barry, T.L., Pearce, J.A., and Hauff, F., 2011, Magmatic evolution of a dying spreading axis: Evidence for the interaction of tectonics and mantle heterogeneity from the fossil Phoenix Ridge, Drake Passage: Chemical Geology, v. 280, p. 115-125. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.11.002

Hamelin, C., Dosso, L., Hanan, B.B., Moreira, M., Kositsky, A.P., and Thomas, M.Y., 2011, Geochemical portray of the Pacific Ridge: New isotopic data and statistical techniques: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 302, p. 154-162. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.007

Mottl, M.J., Seewald, J., Wheat, C.G., Tivey, M.K., Michael, P.J., Proskurowski, G., McCollom, T.M., Reeves, E., Sharkey, J., You, C.F., Chan, L.H., and Pichler, T., 2011, Chemistry of hot springs along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 75, p. 1013-1038. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.12.008

Putirka, K., Ryerson, F.J., Perfit, M., and Ridley, W.I., 2011, Mineralogy and Composition of the Oceanic Mantle: Journal of Petrology, v. 52, p. 279-313. doi:10.1093/petrology/egq080

Sen, G., and Chandrasekharam, D., 2011, Deccan Traps Flood Basalt Province: An Evaluation of the Thermochemical Plume Model, in Ray, J., Sen, G., and Ghosh, B., eds., Topics in Igneous Petrology, Springer Netherlands, p. 29-53. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9600-5_2

Schmitt, A.K., Perfit, M.R., Rubin, K.H., Stockli, D.F., Smith, M.C., Cotsonika, L.A., Zellmer, G.F., Ridley, W.I., and Lovera, O.M., 2011, Rapid cooling rates at an active mid-ocean ridge from zircon thermochronology: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 302, p. 349-358. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.022

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