Mesozoic mafic magmatism in North China: Implications for thinning and destruction of cratonic lithosphere

Y Zheng, Z Xu, Z Zhao, L Dai - Science China Earth Sciences, 2018‏ - Springer
Abstract The North China Craton (NCC) has been thinned from> 200 km to< 100 km in its
eastern part. The ancient subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) has been replaced by …

Generation of Cenozoic intraplate basalts in the big mantle wedge under eastern Asia

Y Xu, H Li, L Hong, L Ma, Q Ma, M Sun - Science China Earth Sciences, 2018‏ - Springer
The roles of subduction of the Pacific plate and the big mantle wedge (BMW) in the evolution
of east Asian continental margin have attracted lots of attention in past years. This paper …

The origin of Cenozoic basalts from central Inner Mongolia, East China: The consequence of recent mantle metasomatism genetically associated with seismically …

P Guo, Y Niu, P Sun, L Ye, J Liu, Y Zhang, Y Feng… - Lithos, 2016‏ - Elsevier
We present new major element, trace element and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope data on Cenozoic
basalts from central Inner Mongolia (CIM) in eastern China to study the origin of the …

Continental basalts record the crust-mantle interaction in oceanic subduction channel: A geochemical case study from eastern China

Z Xu, YF Zheng - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Continental basalts, erupted in either flood or rift mode, usually show oceanic island basalts
(OIB)-like geochemical compositions. Although their depletion in Sr-Nd isotope …

Generation of continental intraplate alkaline basalts by edge-driven convection: Insights from the Cenozoic basalts beyond the Big Mantle Wedge

L Zhou, YP Su, JP Zheng, HK Dai, Q Ma, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Continental intraplate basalts are widespread across Central-East Asia, and their melting
mechanisms are poorly known. Herein, we present integrated studies of petrology …

Crust recycling induced compositional-temporal-spatial variations of Cenozoic basalts in the Trans-North China Orogen

R Xu, Y Liu, X Wang, K Zong, Z Hu, H Chen, L Zhou - Lithos, 2017‏ - Elsevier
It has been advocated that the stagnant Pacific slab within the mantle transition zone played
a critical role in the genesis of the Cenozoic basalts in the eastern part of the North China …

Mantle dynamics of the Andean Subduction Zone from continent-scale teleseismic S-wave tomography

EE Rodríguez, DE Portner, SL Beck… - Geophysical Journal …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The Andean Subduction Zone is one of the longest continuous subduction
zones on Earth. The relative simplicity of the two-plate system has makes it an ideal natural …

Pressure-dependent compatibility of iron in garnet: Insights into the origin of ferropicritic melt

JB Zhang, YS Liu, WL Ling, S Gao - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Iron-rich silicate melts in the Earth's deep mantle have been seismologically and
geochemically inferred in recent years. The origin of local enrichments in iron and low …

Continuous supply of recycled Pacific oceanic materials in the source of Cenozoic basalts in SE China: the Zhejiang case

SC Liu, QK **a, SH Choi, E Deloule, P Li… - Contributions to Mineralogy …, 2016‏ - Springer
Various enriched recycled oceanic components in the source of Cenozoic intra-plate
alkaline basalts from eastern China were identified by previous studies. Due to the existence …

Deciphering the origin of the Cenozoic intracontinental rifting and volcanism in eastern China using integrated evidence from the Jianghan Basin

L Wu, L Mei, DA Paton, P Guo, Y Liu, J Luo, D Wang… - Gondwana …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Intracontinental rifting and low-volume volcanism are a globally common phenomenon, yet
the underlying driving mechanisms and whether they can be explained through classic plate …