Microscale effects of melt infiltration into the lithospheric mantle: Peridotite xenoliths from Xilong, South China

This study demonstrates the complexity of metasomatic processes in the lithospheric mantle, and emphasizes the caution required when interpreting the geochemical signatures of mantle-derived xenoliths in which multiple overprinting by compositionally diverse fluid and melt interactions with mantle minerals cannot be so clearly observed and characterized as in these samples.