On the timing and duration of the destruction of the North China Craton

YG Xu, HY Li, CJ Pang, B He - Chinese Science Bulletin, 2009 - Springer
The timing and duration of the destruction of the North China Craton, which is pivotal to
understanding the destruction mechanism and its geodynamic controlling factors, still …

Lithosphere, asthenosphere, and perisphere

DL Anderson - Reviews of Geophysics, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
“Lithosphere” is a mechanical concept implying strength and relative permanence.
Unfortunately, the term has also been applied to the surface thermal boundary layer (TBL) …

Petrologic and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of Permian–Triassic Emeishan flood basalts in southwestern China

Y Xu, SL Chung, B Jahn, G Wu - Lithos, 2001 - Elsevier
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 …

Plume-lithosphere interaction in generation of the Emeishan flood basalts at the Permian-Triassic boundary

SL Chung, B Jahn - Geology, 1995 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Emeishan flood volcanism that erupted at Permian-Triassic boundary time produced a
large igneous province of at least 2.5 X 105 km2 in the western margin of the Yangtze …

The Early Permian Tarim Large Igneous Province: main characteristics and a plume incubation model

YG Xu, X Wei, ZY Luo, HQ Liu, J Cao - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Permian magmatism in Tarim, NW China comprises diamondiferous
kimberlites, lamprophyres, flood basalts, Fe–Ti oxide ore-bearing layered mafic–ultramafic …

Mantle samples included in volcanic rocks: xenoliths and diamonds

DG Pearson, D Canil, SB Shirey - Treatise on geochemistry, 2003 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Occurrence and ClassificationFragments of the Earth's mantle are frequently transported to
the surface via volcanic rocks that are dominantly alkaline in nature. These fragments range …

Geochemistry of post-Acadian, Carboniferous continental intraplate basalts from the Maritimes Basin, Magdalen islands, Quebec, Canada

MR La Flèche, G Camire, GA Jenner - Chemical Geology, 1998 - Elsevier
The Magdalen Islands are located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near the centre of the late
Devonian to Carboniferous composite Maritimes Basin, which opened in response to …

Magmatism and continental break-up in the South Atlantic: high precision40Ar-39Ar geochronology

S Turner, M Regelous, S Kelley, C Hawkesworth… - Earth and Planetary …, 1994 - Elsevier
A detailed Arsingle bondAr study of the Paraná-Etendeka continental flood basalts (CFB)
has been undertaken using laser spot analysis. Data provide information not only on the age …

Distinct mantle sources of low-Ti and high-Ti basalts from the western Emeishan large igneous province, SW China: implications for plume–lithosphere interaction

L **ao, YG Xu, HJ Mei, YF Zheng, B He… - Earth and Planetary …, 2004 - Elsevier
The Late Permian Emeishan large igneous province (ELIP), with an areal extent of over
500,000 km2, at the western margin of Yangtze craton, is increasingly regarded as the result …

Mantle plumes and flood basalts

RS White, D McKenzie - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss the geological, geophysical, and petrological observations that constrain the
nature of mantle convection in plumes, and show how theoretical models of mantle plumes …