Oxidation of Archean upper mantle caused by crustal recycling

The basalt V-Ti redox proxy indicates that both of the Archean ambient and modified mantle exhibit a ~1.0 log unit increase in their evolution for most cratons, possibly derived by widespread crustal recycling.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lei Gao, Shuwen Liu, Peter A. Cawood, Fangyang Hu, Jintuan Wang, Guozheng Sun, Yalu Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30886-4