Deep, hot, ancient melting recorded by ultralow oxygen fugacity in peridotites

SK Birner, E Cottrell, FA Davis, JM Warren - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The oxygen fugacity (f O2) of convecting upper mantle recorded by ridge peridotites varies
by more than four orders of magnitude,–. Although much attention has been given to …

Forearc peridotites from Tonga record heterogeneous oxidation of the mantle following subduction initiation

SK Birner, JM Warren, E Cottrell, FA Davis… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The elevated oxygen fugacity recorded by subduction-related lavas and peridotites, relative
to their mid-ocean ridge counterparts, fundamentally influences the petrogenesis of arc …

Peridotites and basalts reveal broad congruence between two independent records of mantle fO2 despite local redox heterogeneity

SK Birner, E Cottrell, JM Warren, KA Kelley… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The oxygen fugacity (f O2) of the oceanic upper mantle has fundamental implications for the
production of magmas and evolution of the Earth's interior and exterior. Mid-ocean ridge …

Revisiting the electron microprobe method of spinel-olivine-orthopyroxene oxybarometry applied to spinel peridotites

FA Davis, E Cottrell, SK Birner… - American …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Natural peridotite samples containing olivine, orthopyroxene, and spinel can be used to
assess the oxygen fugacity f O 2 of the upper mantle. The calculation requires accurate and …

Oxygen fugacity at the base of the Talkeetna arc, Alaska

CE Bucholz, PB Kelemen - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2019 - Springer
The origin of the more oxidized nature of arc magmas as compared to that of mid-ocean
ridge basalts (MORB) is debated, considered to be either a feature of their mantle source, or …

Petrology and geochemistry of ophiolitic ultramafic rocks and chromitites across the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Insights into the composition and nature of a …

RAM Ali, IK Pitcairn, AE Maurice, MK Azer… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
Large outcrops of ultramafic rocks are common in the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt
and represent residual mantle sections and cumulates of dismembered Neoproterozoic …

[HTML][HTML] Melt addition to mid-ocean ridge peridotites increases spinel Cr# with no significant effect on recorded oxygen fugacity

SK Birner, E Cottrell, JM Warren, KA Kelley… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mid-ocean ridge peridotites record significantly greater variability in major and trace
elements, isotopic compositions, and thermodynamic properties such as oxygen fugacity (f …

Ancient melt-depletion in fresh to strongly serpentinized Tonga trench peridotites

JMD Day, DB Brown - Journal of Petrology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Peridotites from the Tonga Trench are some of the deepest-derived and freshest
ever obtained from the seafloor. This study reports new bulk-rock major-, trace-, highly …

Europium in plagioclase-hosted melt inclusions reveals mantle melting modulates oxygen fugacity

N Dygert, GK Ustunisik, RL Nielsen - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
To gain insights into the composition and heterogeneity of Earth's interior, the partial
pressure of oxygen (oxygen fugacity, or f O2) in igneous rocks is characterized. A surprising …

[HTML][HTML] High temperature hydrothermal alteration and amphibole formation in Gakkel Ridge abyssal peridotites

SN Patterson, KJ Lynn, C Prigent, JM Warren - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Alteration mineral assemblages in abyssal peridotites offer insights into the temperature and
pressure conditions during hydrothermal fluid circulation in the oceanic lithosphere …