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Is the Earth's crust denser than the mantle? What are rocks formed from molten material called? What does the lower mantle do? What material rises from cracks in the oceanic crust? Which layer forms the largest portion of Earth? Which layer of Earth has the highest density and temperature?
Younger granitoids have lower εNd values (+1.5 to 0.1) relative to tholeiites and monzodiorites crystallized from mantle-derived melts (+3.3 to +1.0). Thus, incorporation of slightly older crust (ca. 100–200 Ma) in some of the granitoid source areas is possible. Mantle-derived rocks ...
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These findings suggest that these rocks primarily originated from the partial melting of a juvenile lower crust. However, compositional data for whole-rock compositions indicate that from PMG to GP and to AFG, there is an increase in SiO2, Na2O + K2O, lithophile element (LILE) and ore-...
Our current findings thus suggest the estimation of the concentration of ‘light’ elements within the Earth’s mantle as well as the Earth’s core remain an open challenge. In conclusion, we have performed computational simulations on the possible incorporation of a range of elements into the ...
Melting anomalies in the Earth's upper mantle have often been attributed to the presence of mantle plumes that may originate in the lower mantle, possibly from the core-mantle boundary. Globally, mantle plumes exhibit a large range in buoyancy flux that which is proportional to their temperature...
The concentrations of incompatible trace elements in ocean island basalts (OIB) from the central Atlantic extend to relatively enriched and fractionated compositions in regions of older oceanic lithosphere. Certain trace element ratios normally considered to be uniform in the mantle, such as Ce/Pb, ar...
This is also strongly influenced by a few high-ash samples, such as D59 and D58, the ash yield of which are slightly lower than 50%.The concentrations of Al2O3 and SiO2 in the Datanhao coals (10.54% and 18.12% on average) are close to those in the coals from the Hailiushu and...