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SUBMITTER: Wang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4284643 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Lu L Kusky Timothy M TM Polat Ali A Wang Songjie S Jiang Xingfu X Zong Keqing K Wang Junpeng J Deng Hao H Fu Jianmin J
Nature communications 20141217
We report partial melting of an ultrahigh pressure eclogite in the Mesozoic Sulu orogen, China. Eclogitic migmatite shows successive stages of initial intragranular and grain boundary melt droplets, which grow into a three-dimensional interconnected intergranular network, then segregate and accumulate in pressure shadow areas and then merge to form melt channels and dikes that transport magma to higher in the lithosphere. Here we show, using zircon U-Pb dating and petrological analyses, that par ...[more]