Basaltic volcanism'samples' the Earth's mantle to great depths, because solid-state
convection transports deep material into the (shallow) melting region. The isotopic and trace …

Abstract The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB, also known as the Altaid Tectonic
Collage), one of the largest and long-lived accretionary orogens in the world, developed …

The Emeishan flood basalt is a large igneous province erupted during the Permian–Triassic
period in southwestern China. Based on petrographic, major and trace element, and Sr–Nd …

SHRIMP U–Pb zircon age, geochemical and Nd isotopic data are reported for the
Neoproterozoic Suxiong volcanic rocks in the Kangdian Rift, western South China. These …

A mass imbalance exists in Earth for Nb, Ta, and possibly Ti: continental crust and depleted
mantle both have subchondritic Nb/Ta, Nb/La, and Ti/Zr, which requires the existence of an …

Consideration of petrology, geochemistry, and mineral physics suggests that ancient
subducted oceanic crusts cannot be the source materials supplying ocean island basalts …

Symbiotic microorganisms that live intimately associated with terrestrial plants affect both the
quantity and quality of resources,, and thus the energy supply to consumer populations at …

In the eastern South China Block (SCB), the presence of middle Paleozoic volcanics and
mafic rocks is poor in spite of the extensive occurrence of granites in response to the …

The hypothesis that mantle plumes contain recycled oceanic crust is now widely accepted.
Some specific source components of the Hawaiian plume have been inferred to represent …

Isotopic heterogeneity in Hawaiian shield lavas reflects the presence of two distinct recycled
components in the Hawaiian plume, both from the same packet of recycled oceanic …