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Re-os isotope constraints on the age of the Lithospheric mantle beneath western Greenland. [PDF]

, 2007
Alkaline magmatic activity across Western Greenland (W.G.) provides a record of lithosphere evolution over the last 600 Ma. Ultra Mafic Lamprophyre (UML) magmatism in particular has erupted an exceptional inventory of mantle xenoliths allowing a detailed
Webb, Michelle
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Carbonate- and silicate-metasomatized mantle beneath Himalayan-Tibetan orogenic belt

Communications Earth & Environment
The extreme geochemical enrichment of post-collisional potassium-rich lava in the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt has led researchers to hypothesize that enrichment is inherited from a metasomatized mantle source potentially incorporating crustal ...
Weikai Li, Zhiming Yang, Zoltán Zajacz, Limin Zhou, Zengqian Hou   +4 more
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Ultramafic xenoliths from the Bearpaw Mountains, Montana, USA: evidence for multiple metasomatic events in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Wyoming craton

, 2004
Ultramafic xenoliths in Eocene minettes of the Bearpaw Mountains volcanic field (Montana, USA), derived from the lower lithosphere of the Wyoming craton, can be divided based on textural criteria into tectonite and cumulate groups. The tectonites consist
James, D., MacDonald, R., Bodinier, J.L., Mason, P.R.D., Cox, K.G., Downes, Hilary, Hill, P.G., Upton, B.G.J., Hearn, B.C.   +8 more
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Time constraints on the formation of lithospheric mantle beneath cratons: a re-Os isotope and platinum group element study of peridotite xenoliths from northern Canada and Lesotho, [PDF]

, 2001
Understanding the generation and evolution of cratonic lithospheric keels requires detailed knowledge of their age, timescale of formation, and the relationship between the crust and mantle part of the lithosphere.
Irvine, Gordon James
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Magmatism of the Kenya Rift Valley : a review. [PDF]

, 2003
Tertiary–Recent magmatism in the Kenya Rift Valley was initiated c. 35 Ma, in the northern part of Kenya. Initiation of magmatism then migrated southwards, reaching northern Tanzania by 5–8 Ma.
MacDonald, Raymond
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Orthopyroxene-dominated upper mantle melting built the early crust of the Moon

Communications Earth & Environment
The paradigm of lunar crust formation has been widely applied to other terrestrial bodies, but the nature of early crust building on the Moon remains enigmatic.
Si-Zhang Sheng, Bin Su, Shui-Jiong Wang, Yi Chen, Qiu-Li Li, Hao Wang, Hejiu Hui, Shitou Wu, Bo Zhang, Jiang-Yan Yuan   +9 more
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Hot Spring Gas Geochemistry in Western Sichuan Province, China After the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 Earthquake

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2015
The chemical components, He, Ne, and C isotropic ratios of gas samples collected thrice from 32 hot springs in western Sichuan Province, southwestern China in June and October 2008 and June 2009 were investigated in order to discuss the relationship ...
Xiaocheng Zhou, Wanchun Wang, Zhi Chen, Li Yi, Lei Liu, Chao Xie, Yuejü Cui, Jianguo Du, Jianwu Cheng, and Liming Yang   +9 more
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The energetics of melting fertile heterogeneities within the depleted mantle

To explore the consequences of mantle heterogeneity for primary melt production, we develop a mathematical model of energy conservation for an upwelling, melting body of recycled oceanic crust embedded in the depleted upper mantle.
Katz, R. F., Rudge, John F.
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The continental record and the generation of continental crust

, 2012
Continental crust is the archive of Earth history. The spatial and temporal distribution of Earth's record of rock units and events is heterogeneous; for example, ages of igneous crystallization, metamorphism, continental margins, mineralization, and ...
Hawkesworth, Chris, Cawood, Peter Anthony, Hawkesworth, C. J., Dhuime, B., P.A. Cawood, Dhuime, Bruno Philippe Marcel, Cawood, P. A., C.J. Hawkesworth, B. Dhuime   +8 more
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Impact of compressibility on heat transport characteristics of large terrestrial planets [PDF]

, 2017
We present heat transport characteristics for mantle convection in large terrestrial exoplanets (M⩽8M⊕). Our thermal convection model is based on a truncated anelastic liquid approximation (TALA) for compressible fluids and takes into account a ...
Mantle dynamics & theoretical geophysics, Michel Jacobs, Hana Čížková, Arie van den Berg, van den Berg, Arie, Čížková, Hana, Jacobs, Michel   +6 more
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