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A subduction and mantle plume origin for Samoan volcanism
Scientific Reports, 2018 The origin of Samoan volcanism in the southwest Pacific remains enigmatic. Whether mantle melting is solely caused by a mantle plume is questionable because some volcanism, here referred to as non-hotspot volcanism, defies the plume model and its linear ...
Vincent Strak, Wouter P. Schellart
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Partial melting in an upwelling mantle column [PDF]
, 2008 Decompression melting of hot upwelling rock in the mantle creates a region of partial melt comprising a porous solid matrix through which magma rises buoyantly.
Fowler, AC +4 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Platinum-group elements (PGE) and gold are a promising tool to assess the processes of mantle melting beneath the subduction zones. However, fractionation processes in magmas inevitably overwrite the initial metal budgets of magmas, making constraints on
Anton Kutyrev +8 more
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Melt channelization in ascending mantle [PDF]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2009 We study a model for channels of magma flow within mantle undergoing decompression melting. Cylindrical conduits in a viscous, porous, compacting matrix are considered, and it is found that the dynamics of the conduit walls are governed by the competition between melting (caused by decompression) and viscous closure (caused by the reduced pressure in ...
Hewitt, I, Fowler, A
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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 [PDF]
, 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. +8 more
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The energetics of melting fertile heterogeneities within the depleted mantle [PDF]
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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Compositional trends of Icelandic basalts: Implications for short–length scale lithological heterogeneity in mantle plumes [PDF]
Lithological variations in the mantle source regions under mid-ocean ridges and ocean islands have been proposed to play a key role in controlling melt generation and basalt composition.
Maclennan, John, Shorttle, Oliver
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2014 The Samoan islands of Ta'u and Ofu/Olosega (Ofol hereafter) are single shield volcanoes that have erupted alkali basalt for the past 70 and 440 kyr, respectively.
Stanley R. Hart, Matthew G. Jackson
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Empirical evidence for the fractionation of carbon isotopes between diamond and iron carbide from the Earth’s mantle [PDF]
, 2014 S.M. would like to thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Diamond Trading Company, and the Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University (UK) for financial support during his time as a PhD student at University College ...
Krispin, Catherine +16 more
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Геодинамика и тектонофизика, 2021 We propose a model of decompression melting, separation, migration and freezing of the melt in the upper mantle during the convective instability process.
B. V. Lunev, V. V. Lapkovsky
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