Oxidising agents in sub-arc mantle melts link slab devolatilisation and arc magmas

A Bénard, K Klimm, AB Woodland, RJ Arculus… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Subduction zone magmas are more oxidised on eruption than those at mid-ocean ridges.
This is attributed either to oxidising components, derived from subducted lithosphere (slab) …

[HTML][HTML] The magnesium isotopic composition of the mantle

XN Liu, RC Hin, CD Coath, M Bizimis, L Su… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to better constrain the Mg isotopic composition of the mantle, we have analysed
twenty-eight samples of both oceanic and continental peridotite using a high-precision …

Cr-spinel records metasomatism not petrogenesis of mantle rocks

H Gamal El Dien, S Arai, LS Doucet, ZX Li, Y Kil… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mantle melts provide a window on processes related to global plate tectonics. The
composition of chromian spinel (Cr-spinel) from mafic-ultramafic rocks has been widely used …

Eight good reasons why the uppermost mantle could be magnetic

EC Ferré, SA Friedman, F Martín-Hernández… - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Wasilewski et al.(1979) concluded that no magnetic remanence existed in the
uppermost mantle and that even if present, such sources would be at temperatures too high …

Metals in Avachinsky peridotite xenoliths with implications for redox heterogeneity and metal enrichment in the Kamchatka mantle wedge

P Kepezhinskas, N Berdnikov, N Kepezhinskas… - Lithos, 2022 - Elsevier
Peridotite xenoliths from the Avachinsky volcano in southern Kamchatka contain diverse
assemblages of native metals and intermetallic compounds associated with primary olivine …

Magnesium isotopic composition of metasomatized upper sub-arc mantle and its implications to Mg cycling in subduction zones

Y Hu, FZ Teng, DA Ionov - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Dehydration of subducting oceanic crust and underlying serpentinized mantle is potentially
the most important source of fluids for element cycling between surface-processed materials …

The magnetism of mantle xenoliths and potential implications for sub‐Moho magnetic sources

EC Ferré, SA Friedman… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Mantle xenoliths provide our clearest look at the magnetic mineral assemblages below the
Earth's crust. Previous investigations of mantle xenoliths suggested the absence of …

Variation in sub-arc mantle oxygen fugacity during partial melting recorded in refractory peridotite xenoliths from the West Bismarck Arc

A Bénard, AB Woodland, RJ Arculus, O Nebel… - Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
It is debatable whether oxygen fugacity (fO 2), the usual measure of the oxidation state of a
system, can vary during partial melting in the Earth's mantle or not. Notably, samples of …

Silica-enriched mantle sources of subalkaline picrite-boninite-andesite island arc magmas

A Benard, RJ Arculus, O Nebel, DA Ionov… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Primary arc melts may form through fluxed or adiabatic decompression melting in the mantle
wedge, or via a combination of both processes. Major limitations to our understanding of the …

Potassium distribution and isotope composition in the lithospheric mantle in relation to global Earth's reservoirs

DA Ionov, K Wang - Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent analytical advances have provided means to measure potassium (K) isotopes in
various terrestrial materials, but little is known about K distribution and stable isotope …