Earth's heterogeneous mantle: A product of convection-driven interaction between crust and mantle

A Stracke - Chemical Geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous heterogeneity in the Earth's mantle has been documented by numerous
chemical and isotopic analyses of oceanic basalts. Despite the ever-increasing amount of …

Rapid shifting of a deep magmatic source at Fagradalsfjall volcano, Iceland

SA Halldórsson, EW Marshall, A Caracciolo… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recent Icelandic rifting events have illuminated the roles of centralized crustal magma
reservoirs and lateral magma transport,,–, important characteristics of mid-ocean ridge …

A new clinopyroxene-liquid barometer, and implications for magma storage pressures under Icelandic rift zones

DA Neave, KD Putirka - American Mineralogist, 2017 - degruyter.com
Pressure is one of the key variables that controls magmatic phase equilibria. However,
estimating magma storage pressures from erupted products can be challenging. Various …

Widespread two-layered melt structure in the asthenosphere

JB Zhang, YS Liu, SF Foley, F Moynier, L Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Partial melts in the Earth's convecting mantle influence its physical and chemical state,
particularly the plasticity of the asthenosphere and the dynamics of plate tectonics. Melt …

The role of pyroxenite in basalt genesis: Melt‐PX, a melting parameterization for mantle pyroxenites between 0.9 and 5 GPa

S Lambart, MB Baker, EM Stolper - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Geochemical and isotopic data suggest that the source regions of oceanic basalts may
contain pyroxenite in addition to peridotite. In order to incorporate the wide range of …

Diverse mantle components with invariant oxygen isotopes in the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption, Iceland

IN Bindeman, FM Deegan, VR Troll… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The basalts of the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption were the first erupted on the Reykjanes
Peninsula in 781 years and offer a unique opportunity to determine the composition of the …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying lithological variability in the mantle

O Shorttle, J Maclennan, S Lambart - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a method that can be used to estimate the amount of recycled material present
in the source region of mid-ocean ridge basalts by combining three key constraints:(1) the …

A process-oriented approach to mantle geochemistry

A Stracke - Chemical Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
The numerous chemical and isotopic studies of oceanic basalts have shaped our perception
of mantle geochemistry over the last six decades. As partial melts of Earth's mantle, basalts …

Spatial distribution and geochemical characterization of Icelandic mantle end-members: Implications for plume geometry and melting processes

S Harðardóttir, S Matthews, SA Halldorsson… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
We compile a new geochemical database (Icelandic Volcanic rocks Isotopic Database, IVID)
which includes previously reported 87 Sr/86 Sr, 143 Nd/144 Nd, 176 Hf/177 Hf, 206 Pb/204 …

The geochemical consequences of mixing melts from a heterogeneous mantle

JF Rudge, J Maclennan, A Stracke - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Binary mixing is one of the most common ways of describing the relationships between
incompatible element concentrations and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic ratios in oceanic basalts …