The life cycle of large igneous provinces

BA Black, L Karlstrom, TA Mather - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Extremely voluminous magmatic systems known as large igneous provinces (LIPs)
punctuate Earth's history, and the gases they release plausibly link large-scale geodynamic …

The causes of continental arc flare ups and drivers of episodic magmatic activity in Cordilleran orogenic systems

JB Chapman, JE Shields, MN Ducea, SR Paterson… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Continental arcs in Cordilleran orogenic systems display episodic changes in magma
production rate, alternating between flare ups (70–90 km 3 km− 1 Myr− 1) and lulls (< 20 km …

Chemical mohometry: Assessing crustal thickness of ancient orogens using geochemical and isotopic data

P Luffi, MN Ducea - Reviews of Geophysics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Convergent plate boundaries are key sites for continental crustal formation and recycling.
Quantifying the evolution of crustal thickness and paleoelevation along ancient convergent …

Turning up the heat: high-flux magmatism in the Central Andes

SL de Silva, SM Kay - Elements: An International …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Neogene history of the Central Andes records one of Earth's most productive periods of
high-flux silicic magmatism. Subduction of an aseismic ridge, the Juan Fernández Ridge …

On the development of the calc-alkaline and tholeiitic magma series: A deep crustal cumulate perspective

EJ Chin, K Shimizu, GM Bybee, ME Erdman - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Two distinct igneous differentiation trends–the tholeiitic and calc-alkaline–give rise to Earth's
oceanic and continental crust, respectively. Mantle melting at mid-ocean ridges produces …

Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 1: Background, locations, petrography, geochemistry, chronology and thermobarometry

MN Ducea, AD Chapman, E Bowman… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Arclogites, or clinopyroxene-, garnet-, amphibole-, and Fesingle bond Ti oxide-
bearing cumulates and restites (collectively representing residues) to andesitic continental …

Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 2: relationship to batholiths and volcanoes, density and foundering, remelting and long-term storage in the …

MN Ducea, AD Chapman, E Bowman, C Balica - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Arclogites are eclogite-like rocks formed magmatically as ultramafic residues and cumulates
in the roots of thick arcs (Ducea et al., 2021 companion paper). They are inferred to be …

Widening of the Andes: An interplay between subduction dynamics and crustal wedge tectonics

J Martinod, M Gérault, L Husson, V Regard - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Shortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the growth of
crustal wedges building above megathrusts in the mantle lithosphere. We show that the …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis: PLUTONS: Investigating the relationship between pluton growth and volcanism in the Central Andes

ME Pritchard, SL De Silva, G Michelfelder… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Central Andes is a key global location to study the enigmatic relation between
volcanism and plutonism because it has been the site of large ignimbrite-forming eruptions …

Subduction zone fluids and arc magmas conducted by lithospheric deformed regions beneath the central Andes

E Contreras-Reyes, D Díaz, JP Bello-González… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Dehydration of the oceanic subducting slab promotes the formation of magmatic arcs, intra-
slab intermediate-depth seismicity, and hydration of the overlying mantle wedge. However …