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SUBMITTER: Rosenthal A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4135334 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20140818
Large-scale tectonic processes introduce a range of crustal lithologies into the Earth's mantle. These lithologies have been implicated as sources of compositional heterogeneity in mantle-derived magmas. The model being explored here assumes the presence of widely dispersed fragments of residual eclogite (derived from recycled oceanic crust), stretched and stirred by convection in the mantle. Here we show with an experimental study that these residual eclogites continuously melt during upwelling ...[more]