Identification of an ancient mantle reservoir and young recycled materials in the source region of a young mantle plume: Implications for potential linkages between plume and plate tectonics

Whether or not mantle plumes and plate subduction are genetically linked is a fundamental geoscience question that impinges on our understanding of how the Earth works. Late Cenozoic basalts in Southeast Asia are globally unique in relation to this question because they occur above a seismically det...

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Main Authors: Wang, Xuan-Ce, Li, Zheng-Xiang, Li, X., Xu, Y., Li, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Science BV 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42851