Contrasting Cu isotopes in mid-ocean ridge basalts and lower oceanic crust: Insights into the oceanic crustal magma plumbing systems

Z Zou, Z Wang, YG Xu, J Ciazela, X Wang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Magma plumbing systems exert strong controls on the formation and evolution of the
oceanic crust during crust accretion. However, plumbing system dynamics based largely on …

Cumulate formation and melt extraction from mush-dominated magma reservoirs: the melt flush process exemplified at mid-ocean ridges

M Boulanger, L France - Journal of Petrology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Volcanism is the surface expression of extensive magmatic systems, with their intrusive
counterpart representing~ 80% of the total magma budget. Our knowledge of igneous …

Novel insights from Fe-isotopes into the lithological heterogeneity of Ocean Island Basalts and plume-influenced MORBs

MLM Gleeson, SA Gibson, HM Williams - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The extent of lithological heterogeneity in the Earth's convecting mantle is highly debated.
Whilst the presence of pyroxenite in the mantle source regions of Ocean Island Basalts …

Magma reservoir formation and evolution at a slow-spreading center (Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge)

M Boulanger, L France, JRL Deans… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Several ODP-IODP expeditions drilled oceanic core complexes interpreted as exhumed
portions of lower crust close to the ridge axis, and provide the community with invaluable …

Stable Sn isotope signatures of Mid-ocean ridge basalts

JX She, E Kubik, W Li, F Moynier - Chemical Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
The constraint of Sn isotope composition of the Earth's mantle is the prerequisite for
understanding planet formation with Sn isotopes and Sn isotope fractionation in terrestrial …

Preserved Nd-Hf-Os isotope variability in replacive channels from the Lanzo ophiolite: Traces of incomplete melt aggregation in the shallow mantle

A Sanfilippo, CZ Liu, V Salters, A Mosconi, A Zanetti… - Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Long-lived radiogenic isotopes of abyssal peridotites, residues of MORB extraction, show
that the asthenosphere is intrinsically heterogeneous, which is inherited from ancient …

Zinc isotopic composition of oceanic crust: Insights from oceanic gabbro cumulates and MORBs

X Wang, Z Wang, J Ciazela, Z Zou, W Li, Y Yu, M Li… - Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Subducting oceanic crust is a critical driver of chemical and lithological heterogeneity within
the deep mantle. Zinc isotopes (δ 66 Zn JMC-Lyon) have been widely utilized to trace …

[HTML][HTML] Linking rates of slab sinking to long-term lower mantle flow and mixing

E van der Wiel, DJJ van Hinsbergen, C Thieulot… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerical models of Earth's mantle dynamics that aim to comply with a variety of surface
observations and/or modern mantle structure, still predict a widely varying vigour of mantle …

Tracking the evolution of magmas from heterogeneous mantle sources to eruption

A Mallik, S Lambart, EJ Chin - Mantle convection and surface …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews the effects of source heterogeneities, melt‐rock reactions, and
intracrustal differentiation on magma chemistry across mid‐ocean ridges, intraplate settings …

[HTML][HTML] First-row transition elements in pyroxenites and peridotites: A promising tool for constraining mantle source mineralogy

OI Lang, S Lambart - Chemical Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Mantle heterogeneity has a first-order control on the petrological and geochemical
differences of erupted mafic lavas worldwide. Because of their contrasted distributions …