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 …

Recycled oceanic crust in the source of 90–40 Ma basalts in North and Northeast China: Evidence, provenance and significance

YG Xu - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
Major, trace element and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic data of basalts emplaced during 90–40 Ma in
the North and Northeast China are compiled in this review, with aims of constraining their …

FOZO, HIMU, and the rest of the mantle zoo

A Stracke, AW Hofmann, SR Hart - Geochemistry, geophysics …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The parameter μ describes the 238U/204Pb ratio of an Earth reservoir. Mantle domains
labeled HIMU (high μ) originally defined reservoirs with highly radiogenic Pb isotope ratios …

Trace element transport during dehydration processes in the subducted oceanic crust: 1. Experiments and implications for the origin of ocean island basalts

T Kogiso, Y Tatsumi, S Nakano - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1997 - Elsevier
Dehydration experiments on natural amphibolite have been carried out under upper mantle
P/T conditions, in order to examine transportation of trace elements during dehydration …

Deep global cycling of carbon constrained by the solidus of anhydrous, carbonated eclogite under upper mantle conditions

R Dasgupta, MM Hirschmann, AC Withers - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2004 - Elsevier
We present partial melting experiments that constrain the near solidus phase relations of
carbonated eclogite from 2 to 8.5 GPa. The starting material was prepared by adding 5 wt …

High-pressure partial melting of garnet pyroxenite: possible mafic lithologies in the source of ocean island basalts

T Kogiso, MM Hirschmann, DJ Frost - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
Many ocean island basalts (OIB) that have isotopic ratios indicative of recycled crustal
components in their source are silica-undersaturated and unlike silicic liquids produced from …

Anhydrous partial melting experiments on MORB-like eclogite: phase relations, phase compositions and mineral–melt partitioning of major elements at 2–3 GPa

M Pertermann, MM Hirschmann - Journal of Petrology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We present melt and mineral compositions from nominally anhydrous partial melting
experiments at 2–3 GPa on a quartz eclogite composition (G2) similar to average oceanic …

Partial melting experiments on a MORB‐like pyroxenite between 2 and 3 GPa: Constraints on the presence of pyroxenite in basalt source regions from solidus location …

M Pertermann, MM Hirschmann - Journal of Geophysical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We present partial melting experiments at 2–3 GPa on a basaltic pyroxenite (G2) similar in
composition to typical oceanic crust. The 3.0 GPa solidus is located at 1310±12° C and the …

Phase relations of carbonate-bearing eclogite assemblages from 2.5 to 5.5 GPa: implications for petrogenesis of carbonatites

GM Yaxley, GP Brey - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2004 - Springer
We have experimentally investigated the phase and melting relations of garnet+
clinopyroxene+ carbonate assemblages at 2.5–5.5 GPa, to assess the feasibility of …

Compositions of HIMU, EM1, and EM2 from global trends between radiogenic isotopes and major elements in ocean island basalts

MG Jackson, R Dasgupta - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Sr and Pb isotopes exhibit global trends with the concentrations of major elements (SiO2,
TiO2, FeO, Al2O3 and K2O) and major elements ratios (CaO/Al2O3 and K2O/TiO2) in the …