Petrological Evolution of the European Lithospheric MantleMassimo Coltorti Several different databases and models have been developed over many years of petrological study carried out by several European and non-European groups on mantle xenoliths, peridotite massifs, ophiolites and mafic magmas spanning in age from Archaean to Recent times. This volume aims to bring together these different approaches and to integrate the geochemical perceptions of the European upper mantle. The papers include regional petrological studies of the European lithospheric mantle, from Spain to the Pannonian Basin, from Corsica and Serbia as far north as Svalbard. Six contributions are based on studies of mantle xenoliths, while the remaining three deal with ophiolitic and peridotitic complexes. A further article provides an update on the textural classification of mantle rocks using a computer-aided approach and there is an introductory overview. |
Contents
DOWNES H GRÉGOIRE M OREILLY S Y Petrological evolution of the | 1 |
Jurassic rifting of the | 47 |
Mantle xenoliths | 71 |
Eclogites and pyroxenites in the SCLM | 87 |
Mantle xenoliths | 102 |
ANCOCHEA E OREJANA D JEFFRIES T E Composition and evolution of | 125 |
Common terms and phrases
alkaline amphibole analyses asthenospheric basalts basanites bdl bdl bdl Beccaluva Bodinier Briançon Calatrava carbon carbonatite Cerro Pelado clinopyroxene COLTORTI Contributions to Mineralogy crystallization depleted dunite Earth and Planetary eclogite enrichment evolution exhumation fractional melting French Massif Central Gabbro Gabbro Gabbro Gabbro gabbroic garnet pyroxenite geochemical glass grain grain-section areas graphite GRÉGOIRE harzburgites interstitial Ionov Journal of Petrology Jurassic Lanzo peridotites lherzolites Ligurian Tethys Lithos lithospheric mantle LREE mafic magmatic mantle peridotites mantle xenoliths Massif Central metasomatic metasomatic agents Mineralogy and Petrology minerals Monte Maggiore Müntener N-MORB North Lanzo oceanic olivine ophiolites orthopyroxene partial melting pentlandite percolation peridotite xenoliths Petrology phlogopite Piccardo plagioclase Planetary Science Letters porphyroclastic protogranular Puy Beaunit pyroxenes pyroxenite Rampone Ray Pic REE patterns rocks samples silicate SiO2 spinel-facies subcontinental sulphide textures thin section TiO2 trace element trace element compositions ultramafic upper mantle veins volcanic websterite wehrlite