Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth – A review and new perspectives

The lithospheric thickness control on the compositional variation of continental intraplate basalts: A demonstration using the Cenozoic basalts and clinopyroxene megacrysts from eastern China

(2020) Pu Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

On the cause of continental breakup: A simple analysis in terms of driving mechanisms of plate tectonics and mantle plumes

(2020) Yaoling Niu   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Large iron isotope variation in the eastern Pacific mantle as a consequence of ancient low-degree melt metasomatism

(2020) Pu Sun et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Lithosphere thickness controls continental basalt compositions: An illustration using Cenozoic basalts from eastern China

(2019) Pengyuan Guo et al.   GEOLOGY

What drives the continued India-Asia convergence since the collision at 55 Ma?

(2019) Yaoling Niu   Science Bulletin

Hot primary melts and mantle source for the Paraná-Etendeka flood basalt province: New constraints from Al-in-olivine thermometry

(2019) Eleanor S. Jennings et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The petrological control on the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath ocean basins

(2018) Yaoling Niu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The dominant driving force for supercontinent breakup: Plume push or subduction retreat?

(2018) Nan Zhang et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Elemental and Sr–Nd–Pb isotope geochemistry of the Cenozoic basalts in Southeast China: Insights into their mantle sources and melting processes

(2017) Pu Sun et al.   LITHOS

Testing the mantle plume hypothesis: an IODP effort to drill into the Kamchatka-Okhotsk Sea basement

(2017) Yaoling Niu et al.   Science Bulletin

Controls on melting at spreading ridges from correlated abyssal peridotite – mid-ocean ridge basalt compositions

(2016) Marcel Regelous et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Formation and evolution of Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau: Insights from IODP Expedition 324 and recent geophysical cruises

(2016) William W. Sager et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Thermal structure and melting conditions in the mantle beneath the Basin and Range province from seismology and petrology

(2016) T. Plank et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Spatial and Temporal Scale of Mantle Enrichment at the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge

(2016) J. Gill et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

The Meaning of Global Ocean Ridge Basalt Major Element Compositions

(2016) Yaoling Niu   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Parental arc magma compositions dominantly controlled by mantle-wedge thermal structure

(2016) Stephen J. Turner et al.   Nature Geoscience

Testing the geologically testable hypothesis on subduction initiation

(2016) Yaoling Niu   Science Bulletin

The global chemical systematics of arc front stratovolcanoes: Evaluating the role of crustal processes

(2015) Stephen J. Turner et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Frozen melt–rock reaction in a peridotite xenolith from sub-arc mantle recorded by diffusion of trace elements and water in olivine

(2015) P.M.E. Tollan et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

What processes control the chemical compositions of arc front stratovolcanoes?

(2015) Stephen J. Turner et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The lithospheric structure of Pangea

(2015) Dan McKenzie et al.   GEOLOGY

Lithospheric controls on magma composition along Earth’s longest continental hotspot track

(2015) D. R. Davies et al.   NATURE

Ocean rises are products of variable mantle composition, temperature and focused melting

(2015) Henry J. B. Dick et al.   Nature Geoscience

Experimental petrology of peridotites, including effects of water and carbon on melting in the Earth’s upper mantle

(2015) David H. Green   PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MINERALS

Exotic origin of the Chinese continental shelf: new insights into the tectonic evolution of the western Pacific and eastern China since the Mesozoic

(2015) Yaoling Niu et al.   Science Bulletin

Mantle-derived magmas: intraplate, hot-spots and mid-ocean ridges

(2015) David H. Green et al.   Science Bulletin

A review of Wilson Cycle plate margins: A role for mantle plumes in continental break-up along sutures?

(2014) Susanne J.H. Buiter et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Global Systematics of Ocean Ridge Basalts and their Origin

(2014) Allison Gale et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Lithosphere thinning beneath west North China Craton: Evidence from geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope compositions of Jining basalts

(2014) Pengyuan Guo et al.   LITHOS

Geophysical and Geochemical Evidence for Deep Temperature Variations Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges

(2014) C. A. Dalton et al.   SCIENCE

Continental collision zones are primary sites for net continental crust growth — A testable hypothesis

(2013) Yaoling Niu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Thin crust as evidence for depleted mantle supporting the Marion Rise

(2013) Huaiyang Zhou et al.   NATURE

The Role of H2O in Subduction Zone Magmatism

(2012) Timothy L. Grove et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Small-scale convection beneath oceans and continents

(2011) Norman H. Sleep   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

The Origin of Intra-plate Ocean Island Basalts (OIB): the Lid Effect and its Geodynamic Implications

(2011) Yaoling Niu et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary

(2010) Karen M. Fischer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Melting above the anhydrous solidus controls the location of volcanic arcs

(2010) Philip C. England et al.   NATURE

Water and its influence on the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary

(2010) David H. Green et al.   NATURE

The global range of subduction zone thermal models

(2010) Ellen M. Syracuse et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Constraints on the depths and temperatures of basaltic magma generation on Earth and other terrestrial planets using new thermobarometers for mafic magmas

(2009) Cin-Ty A. Lee et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Common depth of slab-mantle decoupling: Reconciling diversity and uniformity of subduction zones

(2009) Ikuko Wada et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

On the composition of ocean island basalts (OIB): The effects of lithospheric thickness variation and mantle metasomatism

(2009) Emma R. Humphreys et al.   LITHOS

Modelling the composition of melts formed during continental breakup of the Southeast Greenland margin

(2008) John J. Armitage et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Bikou basalts in the northwestern Yangtze block, South China: Remnants of 820-810 Ma continental flood basalts?

(2008) X.-C. Wang et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Excess temperatures at ocean islands: Implications for mantle layering and convection

(2008) Keith Putirka   GEOLOGY

850–790 Ma bimodal volcanic and intrusive rocks in northern Zhejiang, South China: A major episode of continental rift magmatism during the breakup of Rodinia

(2007) Xian-Hua Li et al.   LITHOS