Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States.
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...eastern Greenland (see [8] for data sources)....
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...Peridotite xenoliths from the Mojavia terrane in the southern Basin and Range are much more Ferich than typical cratonic lithosphere, but formed at the same time as the overlying crust, in the late Archean/earliest Proterozoic [8]....
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...Lee et al. (2001) proposed that the thinner lithosphere beneath Mojavia failed to shield this small fragment of Archean lithosphere from tectonic reworking....
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...Mojavia is underlain by late Archean lithospheric mantle that is considerably more fertile and dense than typical cratonic mantle (Lee et al., 2001)....
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...Figure 4 shows isopycnic density curves calculated (see Methods) for various ocean–continent temperature differences for a range of surface heat flows and parameters given in the figure legen...
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