Enriched continental flood basalts from depleted mantle melts: modeling the lithospheric contamination of Karoo lavas from Antarctica

• Main Authors: Heinonen, Jussi S., Luttinen, Arto V., Bohrson, Wendy A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@CWU 2015
• Subjects: continental flood basalts; modeling; petrology; geochemistry; contamination; thermodynamics; Earth Sciences; Dronning Maud Land; Vestfjella; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cotsfac/229; https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1229&context=cotsfac

Continental flood basalts (CFBs) represent large-scale melting events in the Earth’s upper mantle and show considerable geochemical heterogeneity that is typically linked to substantial contribution from underlying continental lithosphere. Large-scale partial melting of the cold subcontinental litho...