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

• Published in: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
• Main Authors: Heinonen, Jussi S., Luttinen, Arto V., Bohrson, Wendy A.
• Other Authors: Department of Geosciences and Geography, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural Sciences Unit
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2016
• Subjects: Geosciences; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALTS; KAROO IGNEOUS PROVINCE; mantle source; CONTAMINATION; Dronning Maud Land; Vestfjella; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/159633

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...