Mapping a hidden terrane boundary in the mantle lithosphere with lamprophyres [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Lamprophyres represent hydrous alkaline mantle melts that are a unique source of information about the composition of continental lithosphere. Here the authors use isotopic compositions of lamprophyres to map a hidden terrain boundary and an unknown ...
Arjan H. Dijkstra, Callum Hatch
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Spin Transition of Iron in Deep‐Mantle Ferromagnesite
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 115-125., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Jiachao Liu, Suyu Fu, Jung‐Fu Lin
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Volcanism and long-term seismicity controlled by plume-induced plate thinning [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsMantle plumes, the hot upwellings from the Earth’s core-mantle boundary, are thought to trigger surface uplift and the emplacement of large igneous provinces (LIPs). Magmatic centres of many LIPs are scattered over thousands of kilometres.
Raffaele Bonadio +5 more
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Permian Large Igneous Provinces and Their Paleoenvironmental Effects
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 417-434., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jun Chen, Yi‐Gang Xu
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Tearing of Indian mantle lithosphere from high-resolution seismic images and its implications for lithosphere coupling in southern Tibet [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018 Jiangtao Li +2 more
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Patched removal of the mantle lithosphere under orogens: A systematic numerical study
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Delamination or convective thinning could cause large-scale and complete removal of the mantle lithosphere under orogens. However, geological and geophysical observations suggest that patched removal of the mantle lithosphere has occurred in some orogens,
Tian Lei +6 more
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Геодинамика и тектонофизика, 2022 This paper reports the results on the composition of lithosphere mantle under the Mirny kimberlite field. The authors investigated 57 samples of the mantle xenoliths collected from the Mir pipe.
T. V. Kalashnikova +3 more
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Coupling Between Lithosphere Removal and Mantle Flow in the Central Andes
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 The central Andes is part of a Cordilleran orogen formed through continent‐ocean convergence. In contrast to the thickened crust, the mantle lithosphere below much of the orogen is anomalously thin.
Huilin Wang +2 more
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Robust Seismic Images of the Hawaiian Plume
Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 To image the Hawaiian plume and the plume‐lithosphere interaction, we determine a robust 3‐D shear‐wave velocity (Vs) model of the upper mantle and the mantle transition zone (MTZ) beneath Hawaii by jointly inverting teleseismic S‐wave arrival times ...
Chuanwei Ye +3 more
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Effects of Composite Rheology on Plate‐Like Behavior in Global‐Scale Mantle Convection
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 Earth's upper mantle rheology controls lithosphere‐asthenosphere coupling and thus surface tectonics. Rock deformation experiments and seismic anisotropy measurements indicate that composite rheology (co‐existing diffusion and dislocation creep) occurs ...
Maëlis Arnould +2 more
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