Intraplate volcanism originating from upwelling hydrous mantle transition zone

J Yang, M Faccenda - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Most magmatism occurring on Earth is conventionally attributed to passive mantle upwelling
at mid-ocean ridges, to slab devolatilization at subduction zones, or to mantle plumes …

Insights into magma ocean dynamics from the transport properties of basaltic melt

SK Bajgain, AW Ashley, M Mookherjee… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The viscosity of magma plays a crucial role in the dynamics of the Earth: from the
crystallization of a magma ocean during its initial stages to modern-day volcanic processes …

[HTML][HTML] Fingerprinting secondary mantle plumes

S Cloetingh, A Koptev, A Lavecchia, IJ Kovács… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many vertical seismic velocity anomalies observed below different parts of the Eurasian
plate are rooted in the transition zone between the upper and lower mantle (410–660 km) …

High-pressure single-crystal elasticity of wadsleyite and the seismic signature of water in the shallow transition zone

J Buchen, H Marquardt, S Speziale, T Kawazoe… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Earth's transition zone at depths between 410 km and 660 km plays a key role in Earth's
deep water cycle since large amounts of hydrogen can be stored in the nominally anhydrous …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrous silicate melts and the deep mantle H2O cycle

JWE Drewitt, MJ Walter, JP Brodholt, JMR Muir… - Earth and planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
We report ab initio atomistic simulations of hydrous silicate melts under deep upper mantle
to shallow lower mantle conditions and use them to parameterise density and viscosity …

Pressure‐induced coordination changes in a pyrolitic silicate melt from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations

NV Solomatova, R Caracas - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With ab initio molecular dynamics simulations on a Na‐, Ca‐, Fe‐, Mg‐, and Al‐bearing
silicate melt of pyrolite composition, we examine the detailed changes in elemental …

Water quantification in silicate glasses by Raman spectroscopy: Correcting for the effects of confocality, density and ferric iron

F Schiavi, N Bolfan-Casanova, AC Withers, E Médard… - Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
New series of alumino-silicate glasses spanning a wide range of chemical compositions
(basanites, tholeiitic basalts, calcalkaline andesites, peraluminous and peralkaline rhyolites) …

Remnant of the late Permian superplume that generated the Siberian Traps inferred from geomagnetic data

S Li, Y Li, Y Zhang, Z Zhou, J Guo, A Weng - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Mantle plumes have played a key role in tectonic events such as continental break-up and
large magmatic events since at least the formation of Gondwana. However, as their …

Constraining olivine abundance and water content of the mantle at the 410-km discontinuity from the elasticity of olivine and wadsleyite

W Wang, MJ Walter, Y Peng, S Redfern, Z Wu - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Velocity and density jumps across the 410-km seismic discontinuity generally indicate
olivine contents of∼ 30 to 50 vol.% on the basis of the elastic properties of anhydrous …

Stochastic inversion of geomagnetic observatory data including rigorous treatment of the ocean induction effect with implications for transition zone water content and …

FD Munch, AV Grayver, A Kuvshinov… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we estimate and invert local electromagnetic (EM) sounding data for 1‐D
conductivity profiles in the presence of nonuniform oceans and continents to most rigorously …