Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5782726 | Chemical Geology | 2017 | 28 Pages |
Abstract
The Karoo picrites also exhibit some mineralogical and geochemical similarities with rocks and glasses in the south Atlantic Ridge and adjacent fracture zones. The geodynamic reconstructions of the continental plate motions since break-up of the Gondwanaland in the Jurassic support the current position of the source of the Karoo magmatism in the southernmost Atlantic. Co-occurrence of modern and recent anomalous rocks with normal mid-ocean ridge basalts in this region can be related to blocks/rafts of the ancient lithosphere, stranded in the ambient upper mantle and occasionally sampled by rifting-related decompressional melting.
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Authors
Vadim S. Kamenetsky, Roland Maas, Maya B. Kamenetsky, Gregory M. Yaxley, Kathy Ehrig, Georg F. Zellmer, Ilya N. Bindeman, Alexander V. Sobolev, Dmitry V. Kuzmin, Alexei V. Ivanov, Jon Woodhead, Jean-Guy Schilling,