Earth's mantle composition revealed by mantle plumes

D Weis, KS Harpp, LN Harrison, M Boyet… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Mantle plumes originate at depths near the core− mantle boundary (~ 2,800 km). As such,
they provide invaluable information about the composition of the deep mantle and insight …

Mantle sources of ocean islands basalts revealed from noble gas isotope systematics

JMD Day, TD Jones, RW Nicklas - Chemical Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Noble gas isotope systematics, particular those of He, have been fundamental in showing
that some ocean island basalts (OIB) were sourced from deep mantle plumes. Relationships …

Tungsten-182 heterogeneity in modern ocean island basalts

A Mundl, M Touboul, MG Jackson, JMD Day, MD Kurz… - Science, 2017 - science.org
New tungsten isotope data for modern ocean island basalts (OIB) from Hawaii, Samoa, and
Iceland reveal variable 182W/184W, ranging from that of the ambient upper mantle to ratios …

Primordial helium entrained by the hottest mantle plumes

MG Jackson, JG Konter, TW Becker - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Helium isotopes provide an important tool for tracing early-Earth, primordial reservoirs that
have survived in the planet's interior,,. Volcanic hotspot lavas, like those erupted at Hawaii …

Domains of depleted mantle: New evidence from hafnium and neodymium isotopes

VJM Salters, S Mallick, SR Hart… - Geochemistry …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Isotope systematics of basalts provide information on the distribution of mantle components
and the length scale of mantle heterogeneity. To obtain this information, high data and …

Evidence for the survival of the oldest terrestrial mantle reservoir

MG Jackson, RW Carlson, MD Kurz, PD Kempton… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Helium is a powerful tracer of primitive material in Earth's mantle. Extremely high 3He/4He
ratios in some ocean-island basalts suggest the presence of relatively undegassed and …

Non-chondritic Sm/Nd ratio in the terrestrial planets: consequences for the geochemical evolution of the mantle–crust system

G Caro, B Bourdon - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010 - Elsevier
Super-chondritic 142Nd signatures are ubiquitous in terrestrial, Martian and lunar samples,
and indicate that the terrestrial planets may have accreted from material with Sm/Nd ratio …

Heavy δ57Fe in ocean island basalts: A non-unique signature of processes and source lithologies in the mantle

CR Soderman, S Matthews, O Shorttle… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Lithological heterogeneity is a widely accepted feature of the Earth's mantle, with recycled
crustal material accounting for a significant part of heterogeneity in ocean island basalt (OIB) …

Geochemical characteristics and origin of the HIMU reservoir: A possible mantle plume source in the lower mantle

T Hanyu, Y Tatsumi, R Senda… - Geochemistry …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Combined Pb‐Sr‐Nd‐Hf‐Os isotopes, together with major and trace element compositions,
were determined from clinopyroxene and olivine phenocrysts, along with whole rocks, for …

Propagation of a melting anomaly along the ultraslow Southwest Indian Ridge between 46° E and 52° 20′ E: interaction with the Crozet hotspot?

D Sauter, M Cannat, C Meyzen, A Bezos… - Geophysical Journal …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Regional axial depths, mantle Bouguer anomaly values, geochemical proxies for the extent
of partial melting and tomographic models along the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR) all …