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 …

Peralkaline felsic magmatism of the Atlantic Islands

AJ Jeffery, R Gertisser - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The oceanic-island magmatic systems of the Atlantic Ocean exhibit significant diversity in
their respective sizes, ages, and the compositional ranges of their eruptive products …

Carbon Fluxes and Primary Magma CO2 Contents Along the Global Mid‐Ocean Ridge System

M Le Voyer, EH Hauri, E Cottrell… - Geochemistry …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The concentration of carbon in primary mid‐ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), and the
associated fluxes of CO2 outgassed at ocean ridges, is examined through new data …

Towards a 'Sea‐Level Sensitive'dynamic model: impact of island ontogeny and glacio‐eustasy on global patterns of marine island biogeography

SP Avila, C Melo, B Berning, N Sá, R Quartau… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A synthetic model is presented to enlarge the evolutionary framework of the
General Dynamic Model (GDM) and the Glacial Sensitive Model (GSM) of oceanic island …

Quantitative assessment of Pb sources in isotopic mixtures using a Bayesian mixing model

J Longman, D Veres, V Ersek, DL Phillips, C Chauvel… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Lead (Pb) isotopes provide valuable insights into the origin of Pb within a sample, typically
allowing for reliable fingerprinting of their source. This is useful for a variety of applications …

Heavy δ57Fe in ocean island basalts: A non-unique signature of processes and source lithologies in the mantle

CR Soderman, S Matthews, O Shorttle… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Lithological heterogeneity is a widely accepted feature of the Earth's mantle, with recycled
crustal material accounting for a significant part of heterogeneity in ocean island basalt (OIB) …

Volcano-tectonic evolution of the Santa Maria Island (Azores): Implications for paleostress evolution at the western Eurasia–Nubia plate boundary

ALR Sibrant, A Hildenbrand, FO Marques… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2015 - Elsevier
The growth and decay of oceanic volcanoes developed close to plate boundaries are
intrinsically related to a competition between construction and destruction processes, partly …

The crust-mantle transition beneath the Azores region (central-north Atlantic Ocean)

V Zanon, R Silva, C Goulart - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2023 - Springer
The Azores region straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and comprises volcanic islands and
seamounts interspersed with non-magmatic oceanic basins arranged along subparallel …

Morpho-structural evolution of a volcanic island developed inside an active oceanic rift: S. Miguel Island (Terceira Rift, Azores)

ALR Sibrant, A Hildenbrand, FO Marques… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2015 - Elsevier
The evolution of volcanic islands is generally marked by fast construction phases alternating
with destruction by a variety of mass-wasting processes. More specifically, volcanic islands …

Tree growth-climate relationship in the Azorean holly in a temperate humid forest with low thermal amplitude

DC Pavão, J Jevšenak, J Engblom, LB Silva, RB Elias… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dendroclimatic records in areas with high relative humidity and low thermal amplitude are
manifestly scarcer and only a few studies are applied to species that are present in areas …