Continental lithospheric mantle

Although the results of Mattey et al. (1994) have been confirmed by Chazot et al. (1997), it should be kept in mind that most of the mantle peridotites that have been analyzed for 5 0 originate from the continental lithospheric mantle and not from the mantle as a whole. More recently, there have been several indications that... 

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The first modern isotopic studies of continental lithospheric mantle (CLM) revealed that it must have been isolated from the convecting mantle for bUlion-year timescales (Kramers, 1977 Menzies and Murthy, 1980a Richardson et al, 1984). 

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Hassler D. R. and Shimizu N. (1998) Osmium isotopic evidence for ancient sub-continental lithospheric mantle beneath the Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean. Science 280, 418-420. 

Kyser T. K. (1990) Stable isotopes in the continental lithospheric mantle. In Continental Mantle (ed. M. A. Menzies). Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. I27-I56. 

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