A complex mantle plume head below East Africa‐Arabia shaped by the lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary topography

C Civiero, S Lebedev, NL Celli - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hot plumes rising from Earth's deep mantle are thought to cause uplift, rifting and large
igneous province (LIP) emplacement. LIP volcanism in continents often spans tens of Ma …

[HTML][HTML] Origin of spinel-hosted mineral inclusions in mantle peridotite from Setogawa in the Circum-Izu Massif Serpentine Belt, central Japan: Implications for the …

S Arai, A Tamura, M Miura, T Morishita - Ore Geology Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Plagioclase-impregnated mantle harzburgites from Setogawa area in the Circum-Izu Massif
Serpentine Belt (of Miocene in age), central Japan, contain chromian spinel (chromite) …

Geochemical evidence for a lithospheric origin of the Comoros Archipelago (Indian Ocean) as revealed by ultramafic mantle xenoliths from La Grille volcano

CV Bordenca, B Faccini, A Caracausi, M Coltorti… - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
Petrology and fluid inclusions (FI) geochemistry are increasingly used in tandem to constrain
the compositional features and evolution of the lithospheric mantle. In this study, we …

[HTML][HTML] Monogenetic scoria cone and associated lava flow volume estimates and their controlling factors

R Zhang, M Brenna, G Kereszturi - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Estimating eruption volumes of volcanoes is crucial for studying the development and
evolution of volcanoes and assessing volcanic hazards. Volume estimates for polygenetic …

Fluid-related modifications of Cr-spinel and olivine from ophiolitic peridotites by contact metamorphism of granitic intrusions in the Ablah area, Saudi Arabia

AH Ahmed, AA Surour - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
The Ablah serpentinized peridotites and overlying layered metagabbros represent an
allochthonous piece of a dismembered ophiolite in the southern Hijaz terrane that belongs …

Discovery of extremely high-Al podiform chromitites from the Lycian (Marmaris) ophiolite, SW Turkey: Implications for chromitite genesis

Y Xu, S Chen, O Parlak, S Arai, C Dönmez, J Hong - Ore Geology Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The Lycian ophiolite in SW Turkey is mainly exposed in the Marmaris-Köyceğiz (Muğla) and
Yeşilova (Burdur) regions. Its mantle section is widely exposed around Marmaris …

Mineral resources in Egypt (I): Metallic ores

M El Aref, Y Abd El-Rahman, B Zoheir, A Surour… - The Geology of …, 2019 - Springer
Mineral resources in Egypt are diverse. This chapter deals with the metallic ores. The
chapter starts with the iron ores in Egypt and special emphasis is given to the origin of …

The making of an underplate: Pyroxenites from the Ethiopian lithosphere

TO Rooney, A Lavigne, C Svoboda, G Girard, G Yirgu… - Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Magmatic underplates, which are characterized by high seismic velocity and anomalously
high density in comparison to normal lower crust, are among the most significant …

Accessory Cr-spinel from peridotite massifs of the South Urals: Morphology, composition and origin

DE Saveliev, VV Shilovskikh, DK Makatov… - Mineralogy and …, 2022 - Springer
The features of morphology and composition of accessory Cr-spinels from four ophiolitic
peridotite massifs of the Southern Urals are considered. Massifs are localized in the Main …

[HTML][HTML] Long-distance trade in the Middle Chalcolithic of the southern Levant: The case of the olivine beads from Tel Tsaf, Jordan Valley, Israel

D Rosenberg, Y Elkayam, Y Garfinkel, F Klimscha… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Eight olivine beads found at the Middle Chalcolithic site of Tel Tsaf (ca. 5,200–4,700 cal.
BC), Jordan Valley, Israel, underscore a new facet of interregional exchange for this period …