Stable isotope geochemistry of ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks from the Dabie–Sulu orogen in China: implications for geodynamics and fluid regime

YF Zheng, B Fu, B Gong, L Li - Earth-Science Reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
Discovery of coesite, diamond, and extreme 18O-depletion in eclogites from the Dabie–Sulu
orogen in central-east China has contributed much to our understanding of subduction of …

A review of the isotopic and trace element evidence for mantle and crustal processes in the Hadean and Archean: Implications for the onset of plate tectonic …

SB Shirey, BS Kamber, MJ Whitehouse… - When did plate …, 2008 - books.google.com
Considerable geochemical evidence supports initiation of plate tectonics on Earth shortly
after the end of the Hadean. Nb/Th and Th/U of mafic-ultramafic rocks from the depleted …

[HTML][HTML] Stagnant lids and mantle overturns: Implications for Archaean tectonics, magmagenesis, crustal growth, mantle evolution, and the start of plate tectonics

JH Bédard - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
The lower plate is the dominant agent in modern convergent margins characterized by
active subduction, as negatively buoyant oceanic lithosphere sinks into the asthenosphere …

Zircon megacrysts from kimberlite: oxygen isotope variability among mantle melts

JW Valley, PD Kinny, DJ Schulze… - Contributions to mineralogy …, 1998 - Springer
The oxygen isotope ratios of Phanerozoic zircons from kimberlite pipes in the Kaapvaal
Craton of southern Africa and the Siberian Platform vary from 4.7 to 5.9‰ VSMOW. High …

A catalytic delamination-driven model for coupled genesis of Archaean crust and sub-continental lithospheric mantle

JH Bédard - Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 2006 - Elsevier
There is no consensus on the processes responsible for near-coeval formation of Archaean
continental crust (dominantly tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite: TTG), greenstone belts …

Post-collisional potassic and ultrapotassic magmatism in SW Tibet: geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb–O isotopic constraints for mantle source characteristics and …

CH Miller, R Schuster, U Klötzli, W Frank… - Journal of …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Major and trace element, Sr–Nd–Pb–O isotope and mineral chemical data are presented for
post-collisional ultrapotassic, silicic potassic and high-K calc-alkaline volcanic rocks from …

Mantle samples included in volcanic rocks: xenoliths and diamonds

DG Pearson, D Canil, SB Shirey - Treatise on geochemistry, 2003 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Occurrence and ClassificationFragments of the Earth's mantle are frequently transported to
the surface via volcanic rocks that are dominantly alkaline in nature. These fragments range …

Anhydrous partial melting experiments on MORB-like eclogite: phase relations, phase compositions and mineral–melt partitioning of major elements at 2–3 GPa

M Pertermann, MM Hirschmann - Journal of Petrology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We present melt and mineral compositions from nominally anhydrous partial melting
experiments at 2–3 GPa on a quartz eclogite composition (G2) similar to average oceanic …

Two terrestrial lead isotope paradoxes, forward transport modelling, core formation and the history of the continental crust

JD Kramers, IN Tolstikhin - Chemical geology, 1997 - Elsevier
A combined solution for the two major terrestrial lead paradoxes has been sought. These
are the 'future'paradox (upper crustal and upper mantle Pb isotope compositions plot in the …

Concentration and transport of nitrate by the mat-forming sulphur bacterium Thioploca

H Fossing, VA Gallardo, BB Jørgensen, M Hüttel… - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
MARINE species of Thioploca occur over 3,000 km along the continental shelf off Southern
Peru and North and Central Chile1–4. These filamentous bacteria live in bundles …