Chemical Geodynamics of the Earth’s Mantle: New Paradigms
(C. Bonadiman and E. Rampone)
Creation of this volume of the EMU Notes in Mineralogy Series was motivated by at least two important factors.
Firstly, we wished to celebrate the success of the two editions of the International winter school ‘MElting and fluid/melt-rock REactions in the MAntle -MEREMA’. Despite the great uncertainties due to the global pandemic (2020–2021), the school attracted many young researchers from all over the world thanks to the stimulating scientific program. The excellent intellectual milieu led a group of top-level lecturers to accept the invitation to publish their cutting-edge research in this volume. Although finalizing the chapters took longer than expected, we have ultimately compiled an outstanding selection of contributions that provides readers who have broad interests with information on how petrology and geochemistry, combined with geophysics, can shed light on mantle dynamics.
Secondly, we aimed to present the current debated questions concerning mantle dynamics with key studies, which trace an ideal path from the bulk Earth composition (chapter 1) to mantle heterogeneity (chapters 2 and 3), and how these aspects are reflected in the shallow portion of the mantle and derived melts (chapters 4–7).
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xii + 221 pp.
Chapter 1. Composition of the Earth and implication for geodynamics
William F. McDonough
Chapter 2. Plumes from the heterogeneous Earth’s mantle
Cinzia G. Farnetani
Chapter 3. Nature and origin of heterogeneities in the lithospheric mantle in the context of asthenospheric upwelling and mantle wedge zones: What do mantle xenoliths tell us?
M. Grégoire, G. Delpech, B. Moine and J.-Y. Cottin
Chapter 5. The shallow mantle as a reactive filter: a hypothesis inspired and supported by field observations
Georges Ceuleneer, Mathieu Rospabé, Michel Grégoire and Mathieu Benoit
Chapter 6. The role of H2O in the deformation and microstructural evolution of the upper mantle
Károly Hidas and José Alberto Padrón-Navarta
Chapter 7. Kinetic controls on the thermometry of mantle rocks: A case study from the Xigaze Ophiolites, Tibet
L. Zhao and S. Chakraborty