Petrogenesis and geodynamic significance of xenolithic eclogites

S Aulbach, KA Smart - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Kimberlite-borne xenolithic eclogites, typically occurring in or near cratons, have long been
recognized as remnants of Precambrian subducted oceanic crust that have undergone …

[HTML][HTML] Subducted carbonates not required: Deep mantle melting explains stable Ca isotopes in kimberlite magmas

MA Antonelli, A Giuliani, Z Wang, M Wang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Ca isotope geochemistry has great potential for improving our understanding of magmatic
systems and for tracing the deep Earth carbon cycle. There are still many open questions …

Granite petrogenesis and the δ44Ca of continental crust

MA Antonelli, C Yakymchuk, EA Schauble… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Stable Ca isotopes are an increasingly useful tool for understanding the sources and
processes leading to the formation of magmatic rocks, yet Ca isotope fractionation during …

Calcium isotope constraints on OIB and MORB petrogenesis: The importance of melt mixing

ZT Eriksen, SB Jacobsen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Lithological and isotopic heterogeneity in the mantle archive the mantle's melting history and
fingerprint crustal recycling processes coupling the deep Earth with the terrestrial biosphere …

[HTML][HTML] The magnesium isotopic composition of the mantle

XN Liu, RC Hin, CD Coath, M Bizimis, L Su… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to better constrain the Mg isotopic composition of the mantle, we have analysed
twenty-eight samples of both oceanic and continental peridotite using a high-precision …

The potential of Ca isotopes to trace subducted marine carbonates in deep mantle

H Zhu, R Liao, L Du, Z Zhang - Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2024 - Springer
Marine carbonates, the major carrier of carbon upon the upper crust, can be subducted into
the Earth's interior along with oceanic crust, and then returned to the surface through …

Light calcium isotope anomaly observed in continental basaltic lavas: A mixed signal of recycled carbonate and fractionation during melting

Y Wang, X Meng, Y He, J Huang, WN Lu, Q Shi, S Ke… - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
We present high-precision Ca isotopic data for 21 Cenozoic basaltic lavas from eastern
China to evaluate the potential of Ca isotopes as a tool to trace the recycling of surface …

The factors controlling equilibrium inter-mineral Ca isotope fractionation: Insights from first-principles calculations

ZC Xiao, C Zhou, JT Kang, ZQ Wu, F Huang - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Equilibrium isotope fractionation factors are crucial to quantitatively interpreting Ca isotope
data of natural samples. Recent studies have revealed significant equilibrium Ca isotope …

The evolution of the Galápagos mantle plume

CR Soderman, O Shorttle, E Gazel, DJ Geist… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The lavas associated with mantle plumes may sample domains throughout Earth's mantle
and probe its dynamics. However, plume studies are often only able to take snapshots in …

Calcium isotope compositions of subduction-related leucite-bearing rocks: Implications for the calcium isotope heterogeneity of the mantle and carbonate recycling in …

H Ren, M Casalini, S Conticelli, C Chen… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Large Ca isotope variations recorded in mantle xenoliths and mantle-derived igneous rocks
have been widely used to decode the origin of mantle heterogeneity, especially to trace …