Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States.
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...…LAB is comparable to the depth extent of cool, depleted lithosphere inferred from xenoliths sampling the central Colorado Plateau (Riter and Smith, 1996; Lee et al., 2001) that were erupted toward the end of the ignimbrite flare-up, thought to be associated with the removal of the Farallon slab....
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...This allows the depleted mantle to form a thicker thermal boundary laye...
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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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