Earth's heterogeneous mantle: A product of convection-driven interaction between crust and mantle

A Stracke - Chemical Geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous heterogeneity in the Earth's mantle has been documented by numerous
chemical and isotopic analyses of oceanic basalts. Despite the ever-increasing amount of …

[HTML][HTML] Isotopic heterogeneity of oceanic, arc and continental basalts and its implications for mantle dynamics

H Iwamori, H Nakamura - Gondwana Research, 2015 - Elsevier
In order to discuss material recycling within the mantle, isotopic variability of the young
basalts, which reflect the composition of the mantle, has been investigated based on a large …

Formation of enriched mantle components by recycling of upper and lower continental crust

M Willbold, A Stracke - Chemical Geology, 2010 - Elsevier
The origin of enriched mantle (EM) sources remains an unsolved problem for constraining
the composition and chemical evolution of the Earth's mantle, because a wealth of different …

Chemical geodynamics insights from a machine learning approach

A Stracke, M Willig, F Genske… - Geochemistry …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The radiogenic isotope heterogeneity of oceanic basalts is often assessed using 2D isotope
ratio diagrams. But because the underlying data are at least six dimensional (87Sr/86Sr …

The global systematics of ocean ridge basalts and their origin

A Gale, CH Langmuir, CA Dalton - Journal of Petrology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Tests of models of melt generation and mantle source variations beneath mid-ocean ridges
require a definitive set of mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) compositions corrected for shallow …

Classification of geochemical data based on multivariate statistical analyses: Complementary roles of cluster, principal component, and independent component …

H Iwamori, K Yoshida, H Nakamura… - Geochemistry …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the data structure including trends and groups/clusters in geochemical problems
is essential to discuss the origin of sources and processes from the observed variability of …

The geochemical consequences of mixing melts from a heterogeneous mantle

JF Rudge, J Maclennan, A Stracke - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Binary mixing is one of the most common ways of describing the relationships between
incompatible element concentrations and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic ratios in oceanic basalts …

Earth mantle's isotopic record of progressive chemical depletion

C Sani, A Sanfilippo, AA Peyve, F Genske… - AGU …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mid ocean ridge basalts are partial melts of mantle rocks that have become incompatible
element depleted prior to recent sub‐ridge melting. This prior extent of melt extraction and …

Thermal effects of pyroxenites on mantle melting below mid-ocean ridges

D Brunelli, A Cipriani, E Bonatti - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
After travelling in Earth's interior for up to billions of years, recycled material once injected at
subduction zones can reach a subridge melting region as pyroxenite dispersed in the host …

A multiple-system study of the geochemical evolution of the mantle with force-balanced plates and thermochemical effects

JP Brandenburg, EH Hauri, PE van Keken… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Here, multiple isotope systems are tracked simultaneously in models of mantle convection
and it is show that this can provide powerful constraints on the role of oceanic crust recycling …