Crust and Mantle Magmas as Response on Mantle Dynamics: Genesis, Geochemistry and Ores

Dear Colleagues,

The proposed Special Issue will include new results pertaining to the deep-seated magmas and the evolution of their deep crust and mantle roots by a range of academic and corporate research groups based in Western Europe, the Russian Federation, East Asia, and North America.

This project will attempt to address the following problem areas:

(1) Structural and compositional reconstruction of lithospheric mantle in response to mantle plume and subduction activity;
(2) Interactions of plume- and subduction-related melts and fluids with the continental lithosphere mantle, and associated metasomatic processes;
(3) The nature of magmatic sources, petrogenetic conditions (P-T-fO2), and melting within and below the lithosphere and sublithospheric mantle;
(4) Melting processes, fluid migration, and phase transformations associated with deep mantle plume regions;
(5) Modes of melt migration and ascent as constrained by numerical modelling and microstructures of mantle xenoliths;
(6) The role of mantle melts and fluids in generating hybrid and acid magmas;
(7) Ore genesis in layered intrusions and carbonatites.

These topics will be addressed on the basis of geochemical data for mantle-derived melts, fabric studies of mantle xenoliths, and orogenic peridotites and experimental and computer-based simulations.

Dr. Igor Ashchepkov
Prof. Martin Flower
Prof. Eugenii Sharkov
Prof. Sergei Rasskazov
Guest Editors

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