Cr-spinel records metasomatism not petrogenesis of mantle rocks [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Chromian-spinel from mafic-ultramafic rocks is used as a reliable geotectonic and mantle melting indicator. Here, the authors argue that this only works partially – it can be used to assess information on mantle metasomatic processes but not petrogenesis.
Hamed Gamal El Dien +8 more
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Diamond preservation in the lithospheric mantle recorded by olivine in kimberlites [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The diamond potential of kimberlites is difficult to assess due to several mantle and magmatic processes affecting diamond content. Traditionally, initial evaluations are based on the compositions of mantle-derived minerals (garnet, chromite ...
Andrea Giuliani +8 more
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2023 The slab–mantle interface in subduction zones is one of the geological boundaries with the most significant chemical potential gradients, which leads to fluid-mediated metasomatic reactions and chemical transport.
Atsushi Okamoto, Ryosuke Oyanagi
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Carbonate- and silicate-metasomatized mantle beneath Himalayan-Tibetan orogenic belt [PDF]
Communications Earth & EnvironmentThe 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 +4 more
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The mantle source of REE-rich alkaline silicate magmas can be enriched by continent-derived sediment subduction [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAlkaline silicate intrusions host large rare-earth-element (REE) resources, yet the precise origin of the mantle enrichment that generates these magmas remains unresolved.
Kun-Feng Qiu +8 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 137-165., 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 ...
Konstantin Litasov +3 more
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The role of C-O-H-F-Cl fluids in the making of Earth’s continental roots [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe cratonic ‘roots’ of Earth’s major continents extend to depths of over 160 km and have remained stable for more than 2.5 billion years due to buoyant, refractory harzburgites formed by Archean mantle melting.
S. A. Gibson +3 more
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Low‐Degree Melt Metasomatic Origin of Global Upper Mantle Fe Isotope Fractionation
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 The upper mantle is heterogeneous in Fe isotope compositions, but the origin of the heterogeneity needs understanding. Recent studies on oceanic basalts demonstrate that the upper mantle Fe isotope heterogeneity results from low‐degree melt metasomatism.
Pengyuan Guo +7 more
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The Relationship Between Kimberlitic Magmatism and Electrical Conductivity Anomalies in the Mantle
Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 Kimberlites are igneous rocks whose formation remains enigmatic due to their severely altered nature, highly variable compositions and rapid ascent through the lithosphere.
Sinan Özaydın, Kate Selway
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AGU Advances, 2023 Mid‐lithosphere discontinuities are seismic interfaces likely located within the lithospheric mantle of stable cratons, which typically represent velocities decreasing with depth.
Tianze Liu, Emily J. Chin, Peter Shearer
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