Layering of subcontinental lithospheric mantle

Isotopic Evidence on the Structure and Origin of Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle in Southern Nevada

The trace element and Nd, Sr, and Pb isotopic compositions of extension-related late Cenozoic basalts in southern Nevada were determined in order to constrain models for the tectonic evolution of the subcrustal mantle in the southern Great Basin since 10 Ma. Basalts in southern Nevada between latitudes 36øN and 37øN have low ENd (--8 to -10), high A8/4 (+70 to + 107) and A7/4 (+8 to + 12), high...

Refertilization-driven destabilization of subcontinental mantle and the importance of initial lithospheric thickness for the fate of continents

Mantle layering across central South America

[1] Imaging of seismic velocity discontinuities along a 3000 km profile across central South America at 20 S suggests that the depth variations of the 410-km (d410) and 660-km (d660) discontinuities are closely associated with the high-velocity Nazca slab and juxtaposed low-velocity oceanic mantle beneath the slab. The mantle transition zone thickness ranges from 220 km in the oceanic mantle to...

Petrological evolution of the European lithospheric mantle: introduction

s of 33rd International Geological Congress, 6–14 August 2008, Oslo. Coltorti, M., Bonadiman, C., O’Reilly, S. Y., Griffin, W. L. & Pearson, N. J. 2010. Buoyant ancient continental mantle embedded in oceanic lithospheric (Sal Island, Cape Verde Archipelago). Lithos, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.11.005. Davies, G. R., Nixon, P. H., Pearson, D. G. & Obata, M. 1993. Tectonic implications of graphiti...

Metasomatism in oceanic and continental lithospheric mantle: introduction

s CD. BODINIER, J.-L., MENZIES, M. A., SHIMIZU, N., FREY, F. A. & MCPHERSON, E. 2004. Silicate, hydrous and carbonate metasomatism at Lherz, France: contemporaneous derivatives of silicate melt–harzburgite reaction. Journal of Petrology, 45, 299–320. BONADIMAN, C., BECCALUVA, L., COLTORTI, M. & SIENA, F. 2005. Kimberlite-like Metasomatism and ‘garnet signature’ in spinel-peridotite xenoliths fr...