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Petrological Evolution of the European Lithospheric Mantle

Product Code:	SP337
Series:	GSL Special Publications - print copy
Author/Editor:	Edited by Coltorti Massimo, H Downes, M Gregoire and S Y O'Reilly
Publication Date:	23 July 2010
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Description

Several different databases and models have been developed over many years of petrological study carried out by several European and non-European groups on mantle xenoliths, peridotite massifs, ophiolites and mafic magmas spanning in age from Archaean to Recent times. This volume aims to bring together these different approaches and to integrate the geochemical perceptions of the European upper mantle. The papers include regional petrological studies of the European lithospheric mantle, from Spain to the Pannonian Basin, from Corsica and Serbia as far north as Svalbard. Six contributions are based on studies of mantle xenoliths, while the remaining three deal with ophiolitic and peridotitic complexes. A further article provides an update on the textural classification of mantle rocks using a computer-aided approach and there is an introductory overview.

Type:	Book
Ten Digit ISBN:	1-86239-304-4
Thirteen Digit ISBN:	978-1-86239-304-2
Publisher:	GSL
Binding:	Hardback
Pages:	252
Weight:	0.9 kg

Contents

COLTORTI, M., DOWNES, H., GRÉGOIRE, M. & O’REILLY, S. Y. Petrological evolution of the
European lithospheric mantle: introduction

From subcontinental to suboceanic lithospheric mantle

Ultramafic complexes

PICCARDO, G. B. & GUARNIERI, L. The Monte Maggiore peridotite (Corsica, France): a case study of mantle evolution in the Ligurian Tethys

PICCARDO, G. B. The Lanzo peridotite massif, Italian Western Alps: Jurassic rifting of the Ligurian Tethys

Mantle xenoliths

GRÉGOIRE, M., CHEVET, J. & MAALOE, S. Composite xenoliths from Spitsbergen: evidence of the circulation of MORB-related melts within the upper mantle

Eclogites and pyroxenites in the SCLM

Ultramafic complexes

MONTANINI, A., TRIBUZIO, R. & BERSANI, D. Insights into the origin of mantle graphite and sulphides in garnet pyroxenites from the External Liguride peridotites (Northern Apennine, Italy)

Mantle xenoliths
BIANCHINI, G., BECCALUVA, L., BONADIMAN, C., NOWELL, G. M., PEARSON, D. G., SIENA, F. & WILSON, M. Mantle metasomatism by melts of HIMU piclogite components: new insights from Fe-lherzolite xenoliths (Calatrava Volcanic District, central Spain)

VILLASECA, C., ANCOCHEA, E., OREJANA, D.&JEFFRIES, T. E. Composition and evolution of the lithospheric mantle in central Spain: inferences from peridotite xenoliths from the Cenozoic Calatrava volcanic field

Subduction v. intraplate metasomatism fingerprints

Mantle xenoliths

YOSHIKAWA, M., KAWAMOTO, T., SHIBATA, T. & YAMAMOTO, J. Geochemical and Sr–Nd isotopic characteristics and pressure–temperature estimates of mantle xenoliths from the French Massif Central: evidence for melting and multiple metasomatism by silicate-rich carbonatite and asthenospheric melts

DOBOSI, G., JENNER, G. A., EMBEY-ISZTIN, A. & DOWNES, H. Cryptic metasomatism in clino- and orthopyroxene in the upper mantle beneath the Pannonian region

Mantle textures revisited

TABOR, F. A., TABOR, B. E.& DOWNES, H. Quantitative characterization of textures in mantle spinel peridotite xenoliths

Relationships between metasomatism and magmatism

CVETKOVIC , V., DOWNES, H., HÖCK, V., PRELEVIC, D. & LAZAROV, M. Mafic alkaline metasomatism in the lithosphere underneath East Serbia: evidence from the study of xenoliths and the host alkali basalts

Index

Reviews

Review by: Istvan Koyacs
Review was featured in Bull Volcanol (2011)

The book is an excellent compilation of ten contributions from difficult fields of mantle petrology, summarizing importantant episodes of the petrological evolution of the European lithospheric mantle.

The design and layout of the book is excellent. Only a very few minor typos were picked up upon reading, and in some cases, the quality of the maps and photomicrographs could have been slightly improved to more conveniently guide the reader. These minor shortcomings, however, do not influence the overall excellent quality of the book.

All in all, I strongly recommend this volume, not only to mantle petrologists but also to volcanologists who want to have a look at the "other side" of the caldera .. "

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