Origin and Evolution of Deep-Seated Melts and Their Interactions with the Lithospheric Mantle
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 5532
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mantle xenolith; xenocryst thermobarometry; geochemistry; magmas; peridotites; eclogites; craton layering
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2. Faculty of Geology, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk 664033, Russia
Interests: Cenozoic rifts in Central and East Asia, North America, and East Africa; origin of volcanic rocks erupted at the latest geodynamic stage of the evolving Earth
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on the composition and spatial distribution, geochronology and geochemistry of the intraplate magmas in a cratonic setting and its surroundings and their relation to the plume and superplume events. Models of the origin and evolution of the mantle melts in cratonic and peripheral areas have been created, and suggest the reconstruction of the structure and composition of the upper mantle, and that magma-generation processes initiated by plumes or subduction influence the mantle composition and structure. The interactions of melts and fluids from plumes with mantle roots are of interest, as is the study of mantle xenoliths allowing reconstruction of the polybaric conduits, chamber systems and wall rocks.
Proposed topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
1) The reconstruction of the structures and compositions of the mantle roots based on PT estimates and detailed geochemistry of mantle and lower crustal xenoliths in deep-seated magmas such as alkali basalts and kimberlites;
2) The reconstruction of the conditions and substrates of primary and contaminated mantle magmas using whole-rock geochemistry, as well as the trace-element and isotope geochemistry of xenocrysts and phenocrysts;
3) Discussion of the nature and development of metasomatic agents;
4) Models for the origin of the stratification of asthenospheric roots reconstructed from petrological and geophysical data and their influence on the evolution of mantle melts;
5) The links between high P-T experiments under mantle conditions and data obtained from the petrology of natural xenoliths and magmas;
6) Models of rising mantle melts, xenoliths and xenocrysts, including diamonds, based on theoretical and petrological data;
7) The thermodynamic and mathematic modeling of heterophase interaction at the top of mantle plumes;
8) The oxygen fugacity of mantle rocks, and their fluctuation and mechanisms;
9) Vertical motions of the melts and solids, including the ascent of mantle.
Dr. Igor Ashchepkov
Prof. Dr. Sergei Rasskazov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mantle lithosphere
- kimberlite
- basalt
- diamond
- geochronology
- geochemistry
- ore deposits
- mantle xenolith
- deep-seated melts
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