Metastable mantle phase transformations and deep earthquakes in subducting oceanic lithosphere

SH Kirby, S Stein, EA Okal, DC Rubie - Reviews of geophysics, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's deepest earthquakes occur as a population in subducting or previously subducted
lithosphere at depths ranging from about 325 to 690 km. This depth interval closely brackets …

The Dabie–Sulu continental collision zone: a comprehensive review

RY Zhang, JG Liou, WG Ernst - Gondwana Research, 2009 - Elsevier
The Dabie–Sulu Triassic orogen in central-eastern China was created by northward
subduction of the Yangtze cratonal plate beneath the Sino-Korean craton. Eclogites, garnet …

An improved and extended internally consistent thermodynamic dataset for phases of petrological interest, involving a new equation of state for solids

TJB Holland, R Powell - Journal of metamorphic Geology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The thermodynamic properties of 254 end‐members, including 210 mineral end‐members,
18 silicate liquid end‐members and 26 aqueous fluid species are presented in a revised …

An internally consistent thermodynamic data set for phases of petrological interest

TJB Holland, R Powell - Journal of metamorphic Geology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The thermodynamic properties of 154 mineral end‐members, 13 silicate liquid end‐
members and 22 aqueous fluid species are presented in a revised and updated data set …

Serpentine stability to mantle depths and subduction-related magmatism

P Ulmer, V Trommsdorff - Science, 1995 - science.org
Results of high-pressure experiments on samples of hydrated mantle rocks show that the
serpentine mineral antigorite is stable to∼ 720° C at 2 gigapascals, to∼ 690° C at 3 …

H2O transport and release in subduction zones: Experimental constraints on basaltic and andesitic systems

S Poli, MW Schmidt - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Phase relationships in natural andesitic and synthetic basaltic systems were experimentally
investigated from 2.2 to 7.7 GPa, and 550° C to 950° C, in the presence of an aqueous fluid …

High-pressure minerals from deeply subducted metamorphic rocks

JG Liou, RY Zhang, WG Ernst, D Rumble… - Reviews in …, 1998 - degruyter.com
The discovery of coesite (Chopin 1984, Smith 1984) and microdiamonds (Sobolev and
Shatsky 1990) in very high-pressure (VHP) 1 crustal rocks is revolutionizing our …

Constraints on the origin of the oxidation state of mantle overlying subduction zones: an example from Simcoe, Washington, USA

AD Brandon, DS Draper - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1996 - Elsevier
Type I spinel peridotite xenoliths from Simcoe Volcano, southern Washington (USA), are
from lithospheric mantle approximately 65 km inboard from the axis of the subduction …

[PDF][PDF] Hydrogen in nominally anhydrous upper-mantle minerals: concentration levels and implications

J Ingrin, H Skogby - European Journal of Mineralogy-Ohne Beihefte, 2000 - Citeseer
Several of the supposedly anhydrous major minerals of the upper mantle have been shown
to regularly contain small amounts of hydrogen. The concentrations measured in the most …

Trace element fractionation during dehydration of eclogites from high-pressure terranes and the implications for element fluxes in subduction zones

H Becker, KP Jochum, RW Carlson - Chemical Geology, 2000 - Elsevier
The trace element compositions of eclogites, blueschists and mafic granulites from high-
pressure terranes have been analysed to investigate element losses and fractionation that …