Starting composition?

[svinwin]

Hi, today was my first encounter with MELTS or Adiabat_1ph. 

I managed to get it going somehow, but I didn't understand how can I create my own starting composition(for the major elements for the beginning). I tried using just option 8, but obviously this just saves the current composition in the program. How can I get to fill the major oxides values one after the other?

Thanks

[Paula]

Hi,

Sorry, there's no option within Adiabat_1ph to type in a starting composition in the same as way as the original MELTS software.

Is it one starting composition or many that you need to generate melts_files for? If it just one then the easiest thing to make a copy of one of the example melts_files that came with the software archive and then edit the file in a suitable text editor. If it is many then it will save you time to use a table_file - let me know which operating system you are on and I can post an example of that being done.

Cheers,
Paula