Compositions of chromite, associated minerals, and parental magmas of podiform chromite deposits: The role of slab contamination of asthenospheric melts in …

MF Zhou, PT Robinson, BX Su, JF Gao, JW Li… - Gondwana …, 2014 - Elsevier
Podiform chromitites in the mantle sections of ophiolites belong to either high-Cr
(metallurgical) or high-Al (refractory) varieties. Their highly variable compositions are …

Chromitites in ophiolites: How, where, when, why? Part II. The crystallization of chromitites

JM González-Jiménez, WL Griffin, JA Proenza… - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
A review of previous work relevant to the formation of concentrations of chromite in
peridotites from ophiolitic (sl) sequences highlights some of the key problems in …

Peridotites, chromitites and diamonds in ophiolites

J Yang, W Wu, D Lian, H Rui - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Ophiolites, which represent segments of oceanic lithosphere obducted onto the continental
crust, provide an important window into processes such as continental rifting, mantle …

Petrogenesis of the platinum-group minerals

B O'Driscoll… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The platinum-group minerals (PGM) are a diverse group of minerals that concentrate the
platinum-group elements (PGE; Os, Ir, Ru, Rh, Pt, and Pd). At the time of writing, the …

Formation and modification of chromitites in the mantle

S Arai, M Miura - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
Podiform chromitites have long supplied us with unrivaled information on various mantle
processes, including the peridotite-magma reaction, deep-seated magmatic evolution, and …

Chromitites in ophiolites: How, where, when, why? Part I. A review and new ideas on the origin and significance of platinum-group minerals

JM González-Jiménez, WL Griffin, F Gervilla… - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
Platinum-group minerals are the dominant control on the budget of platinum-group elements
in ophiolitic chromitites. They vary widely in distribution, morphology, chemistry and Os …

Diversities of chromite mineralization induced by chemo–thermal evolution of the mantle during subduction initiation

PF Zhang, MF Zhou, PT Robinson, J Malpas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ophiolites, mostly formed via subduction initiation at proto-forearcs, exhibit a unique
variation of mantle-derived magmatism from MORB-like to low-Ti tholeiitic and bainitic-like …

Genesis and tectonic implications of podiform chromitites in the metamorphosed ultramafic massif of Dobromirtsi (Bulgaria)

JM González-Jiménez, M Locmelis, E Belousova… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Podiform chromitites occur in the meta-dunite horizon of the Dobromirtsi ultramafic massif, in
the Central Rhodope metamorphic core complex (southern Bulgaria). Although these were …

Inter-element fractionation of highly siderophile elements in the Tonga Arc due to flux melting of a depleted source

CW Dale, CG Macpherson, DG Pearson… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
Highly siderophile element concentrations (HSEs: Os, Ir, Ru, Pt, Pd, and Re) have been
determined for a suite of fresh, submarine mafic lavas from the northern Tonga Arc front and …

Highly siderophile element and Os isotope systematics of volcanic rocks at divergent and convergent plate boundaries and in intraplate settings

A Gannoun, KW Burton, JMD Day… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Terrestrial magmatism is dominated by basaltic compositions. This definition encompasses
mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB), which account for more than eighty percent of Earth's …