Recent advances made by reaction experiments on melting of heavily metasomatized hydrous mantle

D Prelević, MW Förster, S Buhre, F Gülmez… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mantle-derived magmas are traditionally assumed to originate by melting of an upper mantle
consisting of uniform spinel-or garnet peridotite dominated by olivine. However, extensive …

Trace elements in olivine fingerprint the source of 2018 magmas and shed light on explosive-effusive eruption cycles at Kīlauea Volcano

AJ Mourey, T Shea, KJ Lynn, AH Lerner… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding magma genesis and the evolution of intensive parameters (temperature,
pressure, composition, degree of melting) in the mantle source of highly active volcanic …

Pyroxenite melting at subduction zones

EE Bowman, MN Ducea - Geology, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Arc magmatism is thought to be driven by peridotite melting in the mantle wedge. Yet
pyroxenites are ubiquitous in the melting region beneath magmatic arcs. Because they …

Multiple episodes of rock-melt reaction at the slab-mantle Interface: formation of high silica primary magmas in intermediate to hot subduction zones

AM Rebaza, A Mallik, SM Straub - Journal of Petrology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Siliceous slab-derived partial melts infiltrate the sub-arc mantle and cause rock-melt
reactions, which govern the formation of diverse primary arc magmas and lithological …

Iron isotope evidence in continental intraplate basalts for mantle lithosphere imprint on heterogenous asthenospheric melts

R Xu, S Lambart, O Nebel, M Li, Z Bai, J Zhang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Iron isotope studies on ocean island basalts (OIBs) and mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs)
have disclosed the contribution of pyroxenite lithologies in the generation of basaltic …

[HTML][HTML] First-row transition elements in pyroxenites and peridotites: A promising tool for constraining mantle source mineralogy

OI Lang, S Lambart - Chemical Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Mantle heterogeneity has a first-order control on the petrological and geochemical
differences of erupted mafic lavas worldwide. Because of their contrasted distributions …

Earth's Earliest Phaneritic Ultramafic Rocks: Mantle Slices or Crustal Cumulates?

J Zuo, AAG Webb, EJ Chin, L Ackerman… - Geochemistry …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
When plate tectonics initiated remains uncertain, partly because many signals interpreted as
diagnostic of plate tectonics can be alternatively explained via hot stagnant‐lid tectonics …

Partial melting of arclogite and petrogenesis of alkaline-silicate complexes

EE Bowman, A Mallik, MN Ducea - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Magmatic processing in the lower crust of thick-crusted (> 40 km) arcs generates garnet-rich
clinopyroxenite residues (arclogites) that are denser than the underlying mantle and …

Hawaiian postshield volcanism over the past 55 million years

LN Harrison, JS Scoates, D Weis - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Hawaiian-Emperor chain, the surface expression of the Hawaiian mantle
plume which has been active for at least 81 Ma, is divided into the Emperor Seamounts (81 …

The role of redox on bridgmanite crystal chemistry and calcium speciation in the lower mantle

N Creasy, J Girard, JO Eckert Jr… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The amount of ferric iron Fe3+ in the lower mantle is largely unknown and may be
influenced by the disproportionation reaction of ferrous iron Fe2+ into metallic Fe and Fe3+ …