Global variations in abyssal peridotite compositions

JM Warren - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
Abyssal peridotites are ultramafic rocks collected from mid-ocean ridges that are the
residues of adiabatic decompression melting. Their compositions provide information on the …

Chalcophile and siderophile elements in mantle rocks: Trace elements controlled by trace minerals

JP Lorand, A Luguet - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
BACKGROUND Rocks from the Earth's mantle occur in a wide range of geologic settings (1)
as peridotite massifs, now referred to as orogenic peridotites;(2) as spinel-(rarely garnet) …

Partitioning of platinum-group elements and Au between sulfide liquid and basalt and the origins of mantle-crust fractionation of the chalcophile elements

JE Mungall, JM Brenan - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The partitioning of platinum-group elements (PGE; Os, Ir, Ru, Rh, Pt, and Pd) and Au
between sulfide melt and silicate melt (ie, D PGE sul) exerts a critical control on the PGE …

Highly siderophile element composition of the Earth's primitive upper mantle: constraints from new data on peridotite massifs and xenoliths

H Becker, MF Horan, RJ Walker, S Gao… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2006 - Elsevier
Osmium, Ru, Ir, Pt, Pd and Re abundances and 187Os/188Os data on peridotites were
determined using improved analytical techniques in order to precisely constrain the highly …

Re–Os isotope systematics and platinum group element fractionation during mantle melt extraction: a study of massif and xenolith peridotite suites

DG Pearson, GJ Irvine, DA Ionov, FR Boyd… - Chemical Geology, 2004 - Elsevier
Re–Os isotope and platinum group elements (PGE) systematics are presented for peridotite
xenoliths from N. Lesotho (on-craton), S. Namibia (circum-cratonic), the Vitim volcanic field …

Formation of Archaean continental lithosphere and its diamonds: the root of the problem

DG Pearson, N Wittig - Journal of the Geological Society, 2008 - lyellcollection.org
Cratonic lithospheric mantle plays an integral role in defining the physical behaviour of
ancient continents and their mineral potential. Bulk compositional data show that modern …

Fractionation of the platinum-group elements during mantle melting

C Bockrath, C Ballhaus, A Holzheid - Science, 2004 - science.org
Experiments in sulfide-silicate systems demonstrate that two sulfide phases are stable in the
asthenospheric upper mantle: a crystalline osmium-iridiumruthenium–enriched monosulfide …

Petrogenesis of the platinum-group minerals

B O'Driscoll… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The platinum-group minerals (PGM) are a diverse group of minerals that concentrate the
platinum-group elements (PGE; Os, Ir, Ru, Rh, Pt, and Pd). At the time of writing, the …

Ancient melt extraction from the oceanic upper mantle revealed by Re–Os isotopes in abyssal peridotites from the Mid-Atlantic ridge

J Harvey, A Gannoun, KW Burton, NW Rogers… - Earth and Planetary …, 2006 - Elsevier
Comprehensive major-, trace-element and rhenium–osmium (Re–Os) isotope data are
presented for abyssal peridotites from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 209, in the North …

Petrology and geochemistry of peridotites in the Zhongba ophiolite, Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone: implications for the Early Cretaceous intra-oceanic subduction zone …

JG Dai, CS Wang, R Hébert, M Santosh, YL Li, JY Xu - Chemical Geology, 2011 - Elsevier
The Zhongba ophiolite is located in the western part of the Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone
(YZSZ) separating Eurasia to the north from the Indian plate to the south. This ophiolite …