Orogenic, ophiolitic and abyssal peridotites

• Main Authors: Bodinier, Jean-Louis, Godard, Marguerite
• Other Authors: Géosciences Montpellier, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2007
• Subjects: geochemistry; peridotites; [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Coleman; Menzies; Pacific; Tilley; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00407944; https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-043751-6/02004-1

"Tectonically emplaced" mantle rocks include subcontinental, suboceanic, and subarc mantle rocks that were tectonically exhumed from the upper mantle and occur:(i) as dispersed ultramafic bodies, a few meters to kilometers in size, in suture zones and mountain belts (i.e., the "alpine...