Water in the Earth's interior: distribution and origin

AH Peslier, M Schönbächler, H Busemann… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
The concentration and distribution of water in the Earth has influenced its evolution
throughout its history. Even at the trace levels contained in the planet's deep interior (mantle …

Fluid inclusions in fibrous diamonds

Y Weiss, J Czas, O Navon - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Most diamonds are metasomatic minerals, which means they grew from fluids or melts that
moved through solid mantle rocks and chemically interacted with them. The involvement of …

The Hf isotope composition of cratonic mantle: LAM-MC-ICPMS analysis of zircon megacrysts in kimberlites

WL Griffin, NJ Pearson, E Belousova… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2000 - Elsevier
Zircon megacrysts represent a late stage in the crystallisation of the magmas that produced
the low-Cr megacryst suite (Ol+ Opx+ Cpx+ Gnt+ Ilm+ Phl+ Zir) found in many kimberlites …

Mantle metasomatism

SY O'Reilly, WL Griffin - Metasomatism and the chemical transformation of …, 2013 - Springer
Mantle metasomatism is a relatively recent concept introduced in the early 1970s when
detailed studies of lithospheric mantle rock fragments (xenoliths), brought to the surface of in …

Identification, classification, and interpretation of boninites from Anthropocene to Eoarchean using Si-Mg-Ti systematics

JA Pearce, MK Reagan - Geosphere, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Boninites are rare, high-Si, high-Mg, low-Ti lavas that have considerable tectonic
significance, especially for recognizing and interpreting episodes of subduction initiation in …

The composition and evolution of lithospheric mantle: a re-evaluation and its tectonic implications

WL Griffin, SY O'Reilly, JC Afonso… - Journal of Petrology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The composition of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) is broadly related to the
tectonothermal age of the overlying crust, suggesting a secular change in SCLM-forming …

Minor and trace elements in olivines as probes into early igneous and mantle melting processes

SF Foley, D Prelevic, T Rehfeldt, DE Jacob - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The trace element composition of olivine is a rapidly growing research area that has several
applications of great potential. Mantle olivines can be distinguished from volcanic olivines by …

The origin of cratonic diamonds—constraints from mineral inclusions

T Stachel, JW Harris - Ore Geology Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
The origin of cratonic diamonds is reviewed on the basis of nearly 5000 analyses of silicate,
oxide and sulphide inclusions in diamonds. Compositional fields are defined for common …

The origin and evolution of Archean lithospheric mantle

WL Griffin, SY O'Reilly, N Abe, S Aulbach… - Precambrian …, 2003 - Elsevier
The composition of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) varies in a systematic
way with the age of the last major tectonothermal event in the overlying crust. This secular …

Relict refractory mantle beneath the eastern North China block: significance for lithosphere evolution

J Zheng, SY O'Reilly, WL Griffin, F Lu, M Zhang… - Lithos, 2001 - Elsevier
Xenolith-bearing Neogene basalts occur in Hebi county, at the southern end of the
Taihangshan–Luliangshan paleo-rift zone in the North China block of the Sino–Korean …