Over the last decades, numerous studies have emphasized the role of serpentinites in the
subduction zone geodynamics. Their presence and role in subduction environments are …

Abyssal peridotites are ultramafic rocks collected from mid-ocean ridges that are the
residues of adiabatic decompression melting. Their compositions provide information on the …

The average chemical compositions of the continental crust and the oceanic crust
(represented by MORB), normalized to primitive mantle values and plotted as functions of …

We derive an estimate for the chemical composition of the depleted MORB mantle (DMM),
the source reservoir to mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), which represents at least 30% the …

A comprehensive review on igneous petrological characteristics of mantle-derived spinel
peridotites was made on the basis of their olivine-spinel compositional relationships. The …

Regional averages of the major element chemistry of ocean ridge basalts, corrected for low‐
pressure fractionation, correlate with regional averages of axial depth for the global system …

A systematic study of rare earth and other trace elements in discrete diopsides from residual
abyssal peridotites sampled from 5000 km of ocean ridge demonstrates that they are the …

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) are a consequence of pressure-release melting beneath
ocean ridges, and contain much information concerning melt formation, melt migration and …

This paper presents the first comprehensive major and trace element data for∼ 130 abyssal
peridotite samples from the Pacific and Indian ocean ridge–transform systems. The data …

When Harry Hess first proposed the theory of seafloor spreading, he imagined that mantle
peridotite upwelling at midocean ridges reacted with water to form a serpentinite oceanic …