Diamondiferous Paleoproterozoic mantle roots beneath Arctic Canada: A study of mantle xenoliths from Parry Peninsula and Central Victoria Island

• Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Main Authors: Liu, Jingao, Brin, Laura E., Graham Pearson, D., Bretschneider, Lisa, Luguet, Ambre, van Acken, David, Kjarsgaard, Bruce, Riches, Amy, Miskovic, Aleksandar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Parry; Parry Peninsula; Victoria Island; victoria island
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/44131/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/44131/1/Liu.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.08.010

While the mantle roots directly beneath Archean cratons have been relatively well studied because of their economic importance, much less is known about the genesis, age, composition and thickness of the mantle lithosphere beneath the regions that surround the cratons. Despite this knowledge gap, it...