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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Spin Transition of Iron in Deep‐Mantle Ferromagnesite
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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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To explore a local relationship between geological structures and the occurrence of very-low-frequency earthquakes (VLFEs), a particular class of slow earthquakes with characteristic periods of 10–100 s, we investigated three-dimensional (3D) structural ...
Kazuya Shiraishi +4 more
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Tracing Recycled Crustal Materials in the Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle Using Thallium Isotopes
Here we report the first set of thallium (Tl) isotope data in alkaline rocks from the North China Craton to constrain the nature of recycled materials in the metasomatized subcontinental lithospheric mantle.
Qing‐Feng Mei +4 more
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The evolution of the ‘mantle – moving deformable continents’ system has been studied by numerical experiments. The continents move self-consistently with the mantle flows of thermo-compositional convection.
A. M. Bobrov, A. A. Baranov
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Subducted oceanic crust is enriched in free silica. Although being one of the silica polymorphs at lower‐mantle pressures, niccolite‐type phase (Nt‐phase) has not been documented in multicomponent metabasaltic or metasediment compositions relevant to ...
Lu Liu +8 more
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Ridge Jumps and Mantle Exhumation in Back-Arc Basins
Back-arc basins in continental settings can develop into oceanic basins, when extension lasts long enough to break up the continental lithosphere and allow mantle melting that generates new oceanic crust.
Valentina Magni +3 more
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Continental Growth and Recycling in Convergent Orogens with Large Turbidite Fans on Oceanic Crust
Convergent plate margins where large turbidite fans with slivers of oceanic basement are accreted to continents represent important sites of continental crustal growth and recycling.
Ben D. Goscombe, David A. Foster
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Oceanic Transform Faults are one of manifestations of the three major plate boundaries and a key tectonic feature of oceanic crust. They are broadly considered to accommodate strike‐slip displacement along simple vertical faults and to be largely without
Myron F. H. Thomas +7 more
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Burying Earth's Primitive Mantle in the Slab Graveyard
The evolution of mantle composition can be viewed as a process of destruction whereby the initial chemical state is overprinted and reworked with time.
T. D. Jones, N. Sime, P. E. van Keken
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