Figure 4: Pressure–temperature diagram showing generalised carbonate phase relations in subducted, carbonated oceanic crust. The melting curves of carbonated basalt at upper mantle and transition zone ...

Like a moth in a cocoon, the metamorphosis of Earth's crust from molten goop to solid land is hidden from view, leaving ...

Formation of continental and oceanic crust depletes the convecting mantle ... possible to analyse individual minerals constituting the basalts as well as melt inclusions trapped within the minerals.

It has created the oceanic and, ultimately, the continental crust, as well as the Earth's ... isotopic composition of abyssal peridotites and basalts from the southwest Indian ridge 8 has shown ...

The subducting plate is composed of oceanic crust, which is imprinted with the ... there is a connection between seawater and ...