Oxygen isotope (δ18O, Δ′17O) insights into continental mantle evolution since the Archean

The 18 O/16 O ratio of the subcontinental mantle has decreased by 0.2‰, while crustal values increased by 4‰ via fluid transfer since the Archean due to the initiation of plate tectonics and subduction, in line with the crust-upper mantle mass balance

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ilya N. Bindeman, Dmitri A. Ionov, Peter M. E. Tollan, Alexander V. Golovin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31586-9