Triggers and sources of volatile-bearing plumes in the mantle transition zone

The paper discusses generation of volatile-bearing plumes in the mantle transition zone (MTZ) in terms of mineral-fluid petrology and their related formation of numerous localities of intra-plate bimodal volcanic series in Central and East Asia. The plume generation in the MTZ can be triggered by th...

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Main Authors: Inna Safonova, Konstantin Litasov, Shigenori Maruyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-09-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987114001571