Imaging deep-mantle plumbing beneath La Réunion and Comores hot spots: Vertical plume conduits and horizontal ponding zones

M Dongmo Wamba, JP Montagner, B Romanowicz - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
Whether the two large low–shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) at the base of Earth's mantle
are wide compact structures extending thousands of kilometers upward or bundles of distinct …

Plume-driven recratonization of deep continental lithospheric mantle

J Liu, DG Pearson, LH Wang, KA Mather… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Cratons are Earth's ancient continental land masses that remain stable for billions of years.
The mantle roots of cratons are renowned as being long-lived, stable features of Earth's …

Continental mid‐lithosphere discontinuity: A water collector during craton evolution

HY Fu, ZH Li, L Chen - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Continental mid‐lithosphere discontinuity (MLD) seems to be ubiquitous beneath cratons
around the world with the dominant depth of 70–100 km, and is characterized by a shear …

Lithospheric architecture and geodynamics of the Archean Dharwar craton and surrounding terranes: New insights from satellite gravity investigation

A Vasanthi, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The construction and destruction of continents, cratons and supercontinents on the globe
involved multiple events of plume, rifting, subduction-accretion, and collision through the …

Multidisciplinary constraints on the abundance of diamond and eclogite in the cratonic lithosphere

JM Garber, S Maurya, JA Hernandez… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Some seismic models derived from tomographic studies indicate elevated shear‐wave
velocities (≥ 4.7 km/s) around 120–150 km depth in cratonic lithospheric mantle. These …

Detailed configuration of the underthrusting Indian lithosphere beneath western Tibet revealed by receiver function images

Q Xu, J Zhao, X Yuan, H Liu… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the teleseismic waveform data recorded by 42 temporary stations from the Y2
and ANTILOPE‐1 arrays using the P and S receiver function techniques to investigate the …

Lithosphere structure in the collision zone of the NW Himalayas revealed by alocal earthquake tomography

I Medved, I Koulakov, S Mukhopadhyay… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we obtained new 3D seismic tomography models of the crust and uppermost
mantle beneath the northwestern Himalayas down to a depth of 120 km. The data were …

Influence of inherited Indian basement faults on the evolution of the Himalayan Orogen

L Godin, R Soucy La Roche, L Waffle… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Indian basement faults, which bound three orogen-perpendicular palaeotopographic ridges
of Precambrian Indian basement south of the Himalaya, extend to the base of the Indian …

Clinopyroxene and garnet mantle cargo in kimberlites as probes of Dharwar craton architecture and geotherms, with implications for post-1· 1 Ga lithosphere thinning …

AM Shaikh, S Tappe, Y Bussweiler, SC Patel… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Wajrakarur Kimberlite Field (WKF) on the Eastern Dharwar Craton in southern
India hosts several occurrences of Mesoproterozoic kimberlites, lamproites and ultramafic …

Petrogenesis of Neoarchean (2.80–2.75 Ga) Jagannathpur volcanics and the Ghatgaon and Keshargaria dyke swarms, Singhbhum craton, eastern India …

A Adhikari, A Nandi, S Mukherjee, R Vadlamani - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Petrogenesis of Neoarchean dyke swarms and dispersed volcanic successions in the
Singhbhum craton can potentially constrain mantle heterogeneity. Their arc-like trace …