Titanium in olivine reveals low-Ti origin of the Chang'E-5 lunar basalts

D Zhang, B Su, Y Chen, W Yang, Q Mao, LH Jia - Lithos, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract China's Chang'E-5 mission returned new samples from the Moon and has extended
the eruption ages of lunar volcanism ca. 800 million years younger than previous …

Jurassic back-arc and Cretaceous hot-spot series In the Armenian ophiolites—Implications for the obduction process

Y Rolland, G Galoyan, D Bosch, M Sosson, M Corsini… - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
The identification of a large OIB-type volcanic sequence on top of an obducted nappe in the
Lesser Caucaus of Armenia helps us explain the obduction processes in the Caucasus …

Petrogenesis of the 2115 Ma Haicheng mafic sills from the Eastern North China Craton: Implications for an intra-continental rifting

X Wang, P Peng, C Wang, S Yang - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rhyacian (2300–2050 Ma) is a special era of the Paleoproterozoic represented
by large layered intrusions in many cratons. It is well known that there are widespread …

Evidence for subduction at 3.8 Ga: geochemistry of arc-like metabasalts from the southern edge of the Isua Supracrustal Belt

FE Jenner, VC Bennett, AP Nutman, CRL Friend… - Chemical …, 2009 - Elsevier
We present new major and trace element data for rare examples of preserved pillow basalts
from a locality of little studied> 3800 Ma rocks at the southwestern edge of the Isua …

[HTML][HTML] Review of melt inclusions in lunar rocks: constraints on melt and mantle composition and magmatic processes

Y Zhang - European Journal of Mineralogy, 2024 - ejm.copernicus.org
Mineral-hosted melt inclusions provide a window into magmatic processes and pre-eruptive
liquid compositions. Because melt inclusions are small (typically< 100 µ m), the study of …

Origins of xenolithic eclogites and pyroxenites from the Central Slave Craton, Canada

S Aulbach, NJ Pearson, SY O'reilly… - Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Major-and trace-element and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic compositions of garnet and clinopyroxene
in kimberlite-borne eclogite and pyroxenite xenoliths were used to establish their origins and …

Mafic Late Miocene–Quaternary volcanic rocks in the Kamchatka back arc region: implications for subduction geometry and slab history at the Pacific–Aleutian …

AO Volynets, TG Churikova, G Wörner… - … to mineralogy and …, 2010 - Springer
Abstract New 40 Ar/39 Ar and published 14 C ages constrain voluminous mafic volcanism of
the Kamchatka back-arc to Miocene (3–6 Ma) and Late Pleistocene to Holocene (< 1 Ma) …

The farthest record of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province into West Africa craton: Precise 40Ar/39Ar dating and geochemistry of Taoudenni basin intrusives …

C Verati, H Bertrand, G Féraud - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
The Taoudenni basin dike swarm (northern Mali) is one of the densest dike complexes of the
Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP). A combined geometrical (dike directions) …

Iron isotope fractionation during crystallization and sub-solidus re-equilibration: Constraints from the Baima mafic layered intrusion, SW China

LM Chen, XY Song, XK Zhu, XQ Zhang, SY Yu, JN Yi - Chemical Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
To better understand Fe isotope fractionation between mafic minerals and oxides during
crystallization of mafic magma and sub-solidus re-equilibration, the Fe isotopes of whole …

Trace element partitioning between olivine and melt in lunar basalts

S Chen, P Ni, Y Zhang, J Gagnon - American Mineralogist, 2022 - degruyter.com
Mineral/melt partition coefficients have been widely used to provide insights into magmatic
processes. Olivine is one of the most abundant and important minerals in the lunar mantle …