The source for the isotopically-enriched Hawaiian magmas contains peridotites that experienced near-surface melting prior ...
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Geologists Found Remnants Of Earth's Mantle That Have Lasted Over 2.5 Billion Years And Challenge Previous Beliefs About Our Planet's Oxidation ProcessesOne of the most common types is an igneous rock high in silica content called peridotite. In the past, when geologists ...
The mantle sequence is 3-8 km thick (Dewandel et al. 2005) and is comprised of peridotite (~30% of the ophiolite) (Kelemen and Matter 2008), overlain by gabbros. The original crustal material is ...
The Atlantis Massif is an oceanic core complex, a portion of lower crustal gabbroic rocks and peridotite mantle rocks uplifted during faulting of the seafloor (e.g. Ildefonse et al., 2007) that formed ...
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