Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 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.
Richard E. Ernst +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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Nature Communications, 2023 Discovering ancient mantle plumes is challenging. By combining electrical conductivity with mineral physics modelling, this work finds a remnant of an ancient plume trapped in the mantle transition zone and sheds new light on mantle plume physics.
Shiwen Li +5 more
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Upper- and mid-mantle interaction between the Samoan plume and the Tonga-Kermadec slabs [PDF]
, 2016 Mantle plumes are thought to play a key role in transferring heat from the core\u2013mantle boundary to the lithosphere, where it can significantly influence plate tectonics. On impinging on the lithosphere at spreading ridges or in intra-plate settings,
AM Dziewoński +54 more
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On the location of plumes and lateral movement of thermochemical structures with high bulk modulus in the 3-D compressible mantle [PDF]
, 2011 The two large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) at the base of the lower mantle are prominent features in all shear wave tomography models. Various lines of evidence suggest that the LLSVPs are thermochemical and are stable on the order of hundreds ...
Gurnis, Michael +3 more
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Fat Plumes May Reflect the Complex Rheology of the Lower Mantle
Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 Recent tomographic imaging of the mantle below major hot spots shows slow seismic velocities extending down to the core‐mantle boundary, confirming the existence of mantle plumes. However, these plumes are much thicker than previously thought.
A. Davaille, Ph. Carrez, P. Cordier
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Insights Into the Origins and Compositions of Mantle Plumes: A Comparison of Galápagos and Hawai'i
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020 The Galápagos and Hawai'i archipelagos are formed by mantle plumes originating at the large low shear velocity province (LLSVP) boundary. We report new high‐precision Pb, Sr, Nd, and Hf isotopic analyses on 83 Galápagos samples and compare them with ...
Karen S. Harpp, Dominique Weis
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021 Africa's Cenozoic tectonism is often attributed to mantle plumes, particularly below East Africa, but their morphology, number, location, and impact on the African lithosphere are debated.
A. Boyce +6 more
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Slabs in the lower mantle and their modulation of plume formation [PDF]
, 2002 Numerical mantle convection models indicate that subducting slabs can reach the core-mantle boundary (CMB) for a wide range of assumed material properties and plate tectonic histories.
Gurnis, Michael, Han, Lijie, Tan, Eh
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Rare oceanic diamonds are believed to have a mantle transition zone origin like super-deep continental diamonds. However, oceanic diamonds have a homogeneous and organic-like light carbon isotope signature (δ13C − 28 to − 20‰) instead of the extremely ...
Luc S. Doucet +2 more
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