Slab melting

Drummond, M.S. Defant, M.J. 1990. A model for trondhjemite-tonalite-dacite genesis and crustal growth via slab melting Archean to modern comparison. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 21503-21521. 

Bindeman IN, EUer JN, et al. (2005) Oxygen isotope evidence for slab melting in modern and ancient subduction zones. Earth Planet Sci Lett 235 480 96 Bird Ml, Chivas AR (1989) Stable-isotope geochronology of the Australian regolith. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 53 3239-3256... 

Kamber B. S., Ewart A., Collerson K. D., Bruce M. C., and McDonald G. D. (2002) Fluid-mobile trace element constraints on the role of slab melting and imphcations for Archean crustal growth models. Contrib. Mineral Petrol. 144, 38-56. 

Bourdon E., Eissen J.-P., Monzier M., Robin C., Martin H., Gotten J., and Hall M. L. (2002) Adakite-Uke lavas from Antisana Volcano (Ecuador) evidence from slab melt metasomatism beneath the Andean northern volcanic zone. J. Petrol. 192, 561-570. 

Defant M. J. and Kepezhinskas P. (2001) Evidence suggests slab melting in arc magmas. EOS 82, 65-69. 

Yogodzinski G. M. and Kelemen P. B. (1998) Slab melting in the Aleutians implications of an ion probe study of clinopyroxene in primitive adakite and basalt. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 158, 53-65. 

Adakites are normally a minor component of modern arc magmatism. Sometimes they form a discrete component, but more normally they contribute to a particular magmatic suite though mixing, along with the other components discussed in this section (Stern and Kilian, 1996). Early in Earth history, however, slab melting may have made a much more important contribution to crustal growth than it does today (Martin, 1986). We will address this topic later in the chapter (Section 4.4.2.1). 

The geochemical similarity between Archaean TTGs and adakites strongly suggests that TTGs are also slab melts (Martin, 1999). 

Archaean felsic crust looks like slab melt (Section 4.4.2)... 

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