Mantle plumes and their role in Earth processes

AAP Koppers, TW Becker, MG Jackson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The existence of mantle plumes was first proposed in the 1970s to explain intra-plate,
hotspot volcanism, yet owing to difficulties in resolving mantle upwellings with geophysical …

The late Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South China Sea: A petrologic perspective

Q Yan, X Shi, PR Castillo - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of available petrological, geochonological and geochemical
data for late Mesozoic to Recent igneous rocks in the South China Sea (SCS) and adjacent …

Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic rifting and its dynamic setting in Eastern China and adjacent areas

J Ren, K Tamaki, S Li, Z Junxia - Tectonophysics, 2002 - Elsevier
During the Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic, extension was widespread in Eastern China and
adjacent areas. The first rifting stage spanned in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous times …

Mantle plumes and entrainment: isotopic evidence

SR Hart, EH Hauri, LA Oschmann, JA Whitehead - Science, 1992 - science.org
Many oceanic island basalts show sublinear subparallel arrays in Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic space.
The depleted upper mantle is rarely a mixing end-member of these arrays, as would be …

Late Mesozoic volcanism in the Great **ng'an Range (NE China): timing and implications for the dynamic setting of NE Asia

F Wang, XH Zhou, LC Zhang, JF Ying, YT Zhang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2006 - Elsevier
Mesozoic volcanism is widespread throughout northeastern China, but precise
geochronological constraints were previously lacking. Twenty samples, including basalt and …

Degree 12 model of shear velocity heterogeneity in the mantle

W Su, RL Woodward… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
We obtain a three‐dimensional (3D) model of shear wave velocity heterogeneity of the
Earth's mantle by inverting a large set of seismic data consisting of 27,000 long‐period …

Tracing the Indian Ocean mantle domain through time: isotopic results from old West Indian, East Tethyan, and South Pacific seafloor

JJ Mahoney, R Frei, MLG Tejada, XX Mo… - Journal of …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
The isotopic difference between modern Indian Ocean and Pacific or North Atlantic Ocean
ridge mantle (eg variably lower 206Pb/204Pb for a given εNd and 208Pb/204Pb) could …

Short‐lived and discontinuous intraplate volcanism in the South Pacific: Hot spots or extensional volcanism?

AAP Koppers, H Staudigel, MS Pringle… - Geochemistry …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
South Pacific intraplate volcanoes have been active since the Early Cretaceous. Their HIMU‐
EMI‐EMII mantle sources can be traced back into the West Pacific Seamount Province …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Origin of igneous rocks: the isotopic evidence

G Faure - 2013 - books.google.com
his book is intended for graduate students of the Earth Sciences who require a T
comprehensive examination of the origins of igneous rocks as recorded by the isotope …

Fluxes and excess temperatures of mantle plumes inferred from their interaction with migrating mid-ocean ridges

JG Schilling - Nature, 1991 - nature.com
The behaviour of thermal plumes in the Earth's upper mantle is strongly affected by their
interaction with nearby mid-ocean ridges. The magnitude of the buoyant topography and the …