Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States.
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...[55] The most trivial explanation for the stability is that the CP has a mechanically strong (i.e., cold and thick) lithosphere [Blackwell et al., 1991; Lee et al., 2001]....
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...[55] The most trivial explanation for the stability is that the CP has a mechanically strong (i.e., cold and thick) lithosphere [Blackwell et al., 1991; Lee et al., 2001 ]....
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...Assuming that partial melting leads to stabilization of the lithospheric mantle, the Re–Os isotope systematics of peridotite xenoliths (samples of the lithospheric mantle) can be used to date this time of stabilization; this is because partial melting fractionates Re/Os (Re is moderately depleted and Os is sequestered in the residu...
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...But in the Cordilleran mountain belt of western North America some younger (middle Proterozoic) regions have remained stabl...
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