[HTML][HTML] Mapping Middle Stone Age human mobility in the Makgadikgadi Pans (Botswana) through multi-site geochemical provenancing of silcrete artefacts

DJ Nash, TJR Ciborowski, SD Coulson… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Analyses of the distance over which lithic raw materials were transported for use in stone
tool production provide important insights into early human mobility through prehistoric …

Molybdenum isotopic heterogeneity for intraplate basalts and its origin

W Fang, LQ Dai, ZF Zhao - Chemical Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
The molybdenum (Mo) isotope system is a powerful tool for tracing recycled crustal
components in volcanic rocks. Existing Mo isotope data show that intraplate basalts have …

Extensive crustal extraction in Earth's early history inferred from molybdenum isotopes

AJ McCoy-West, P Chowdhury, KW Burton, P Sossi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Estimates of the volume of the earliest crust based on zircon ages and radiogenic isotopes
remain equivocal. Stable isotope systems, such as molybdenum, have the potential to …

Multiple negative molybdenum isotope excursions in the Doushantuo Formation (South China) fingerprint complex redox-related processes in the Ediacaran Nanhua …

CM Ostrander, SK Sahoo, B Kendall, G Jiang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation offers one of the most complete and
extensively studied records of end-Neoproterozoic biotic and environmental change. Here …

Reconciling evidence of oxidative weathering and atmospheric anoxia on Archean Earth

AC Johnson, CM Ostrander, SJ Romaniello… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Evidence continues to emerge for the production and low-level accumulation of molecular
oxygen (O2) at Earth's surface before the Great Oxidation Event. Quantifying this early O2 …

Mo isotopes archive oceanic sediments in post-orogenic lithospheric mantle

F Huang, J Li, J Xu, J Chen, B Wang, P Hu, R Xu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The super-chondritic Mo isotopic composition of the continental crust has been attributed to
contributions from subducted oceanic slabs and/or sediments, which introduce isotopically …

Boron and molybdenum isotopic fractionation during crustal anatexis: Constraints from the Conadong leucogranites in the Himalayan Block, South Tibet

JJ Fan, Q Wang, J Li, GJ Wei, JL Ma, L Ma… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Partial melts derived from crustal anatexis exhibit large variations in field characteristics,
composition, and isotope geochemistry. The relative influence of melting process and …

Systematic across‐arc variations of molybdenum isotopes in a fluid‐dominated subduction zone system

M Willbold, N Messling - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mass‐dependent Mo isotope variations are a promising new tracer to study magmatic
processes in different geological settings. We report the first Mo isotope data for the …

Molybdenum isotopic constraints on the origin of EM1-type continental intraplate basalts

L Ma, YG Xu, J Li, LH Chen, JQ Liu, HY Li… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
The origin of enriched mantle 1 (EM1) component in the mantle has long been debated.
EM1 source of basalts has been variously attributed to recycled sub-continental lithosphere …

Re-assessment of the effect of fractional crystallization on Mo isotopes: Constraints from I-type granitoids and their enclosed mafic magmatic enclaves

S Chen, Y Niu, H Gong, X Wang, Q Xue - Chemical Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, considerable progress has been made on the study of Mo isotopes in high-
temperature geological processes. However, it is still controversial whether Mo isotope …