Molybdenum isotope systematics of lavas from the East Pacific Rise: Constraints on the source of enriched mid-ocean-ridge basalt

Shuo Chen, Pu Sun, Yaoling Niu, Pengyuan Guo, T. Elliott, R.C. Hin

A paradigm change:
Lithospheric lid thickness, not mantle potential temperature, controls extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction & basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth

Yaoling Niu

The Generation and Source Region of Post-Extensional Intraplate Volcanism in the Carpathian-Pannonian Region

Antoine J. J. Bracco Gartner& Dan McKenzie

Supercontinent transition: Links to ~1.1 Gyr diamondiferous kimberlites and related rocks in India

A. Pandey & N.V. Chalapathi Rao

Geochemical transfer from the subducting crust into the mantle

Yong-Fei Zheng

Origin of high-Mg melts by volatile fluxing without significant excess of temperature

A.V. Ivanov, S.B. Mukasa, V.S. Kamenetsky, M. Ackerson, E.I. Demonterova, B.G. Pokrovsky, N.V. Vladykin, M.V. Kolesnichenko, K.D. Litasov, D.A. Zedgenizov

Crustal contamination vs. an enriched mantle source for intracontinental mafic rocks: Insights from early Paleozoic mafic rocks of the South China Block

Wenjing Xu, Xisheng Xu & Gang Zeng

OIB signatures in basin-related lithosphere-derived alkaline basalts from the Batain basin (Oman) – Constraints from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages and Nd-Sr-Pb-Hf isotopes

M. Witte, S. Jung, J.A. Pfänder, R.L. Romer, B. Mayer, D. Garbe-Schönberg

Multiple mantle sources of continental magmatism

V.S. Kamenetsky, R. Maas, M.B. Kamenetsky, G.M. Yaxley,K. Ehrig, G.F. Zellmer, I.N. Bindeman, A.V. Sobolev, D.V. Kuzmin, A.V, Ivanov, J. Woodhead, J.-G. Schilling

Heterogeneous source components of intraplate basalts from E China from ongoing Pacific slab subduction

Huan Chen, Qun-Ke Xia, J. Ingrin, E. Deloule, Yao Bi

A primer on olivine control-line modelling

M. Lustrino

High water content in primitive continental flood basalts

Qun-Ke Xia, Yao Bi, Pei Li, Wei Tian, Xun Wei, Han-Lin Chen

A short comment on geochemistry & plumes

Michele Lustrino

Recycling of oceanic crust from a stagnant slab in the mantle transition zone: Evidence from Cenozoic continental basalts in Zhejiang Province, SE China

Y.-Q. Li, C.-Q. Ma, P.T. Robinson, Q. Zhou, M.-L. Liu

Monte-Carlo simulations of metasomatic enrichment in the lithosphere and implications for the source of alkaline basalts

S. Pilet

Recycled oceanic crust in the source of 90-40 Ma basalts in N & NE China

Yi-Gang Xu

Melting of the oceanic crust in stagnant slabs in the transition zone: Constraints from alkaline basalts in eastern China

J.-I. Kimura, Y. Fukao, Y. Hirahara, T. Takahashi, R. Senda, Q. Chang, T. Miyazaki, M. Obayashi, H. Kawabata, & Y. Tatsumi

Small-sized seamounts composed of potassic alkaline basalt: a record of tectonically-induced volcanism in the ocean?

D.M. Buchs, S. Pilet & P.O. Baumgartner

Do we really need mantle reservoirs to define mantle processes?

P. Armienti & D. Gasperini

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The highly magnesian dike rocks of Vestfjella (W Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica): implications for sublithospheric mantle sources & the origin of the Karoo LIP

J.S. Heinonen & A.V. Luttinen

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Origin of continental basalts: pyroxenite source and melt-peridotite interaction

Y.-F. Zheng, J.-J. Zhang & Z.-F. Zhao

"Mantle plumes" are NOT from ancient oceanic crust

Yaoling Niu & Mike J. O'Hara

Shallow convective mantle origin for the OIB-type, mid-plate lavas of western Turkey: Implications for fertility anomaly zones in the upper mantle

Ercan Aldanmaz

Basaltic magmatism influenced by high-pressure basaltic lithologies stored in the upper mantle

Michele Lustrino

The layered mantle revisited : An eclogite reservoir

Don L. Anderson

The isotopic signature in OIB mantle sources : the metasomatic alternative

Sébastien Pilet, Jean Hernandez & Paul J. Sylvester