Primary magmas and mantle sources of Emeishan basalts constrained from major element, trace element and Pb isotope compositions of olivine-hosted melt inclusions

• Published in: Geochimica et cosmochimica acta Vol. 208; pp. 63 - 85
• Main Authors: Ren, Zhong-Yuan, Wu, Ya-Dong, Zhang, Le, Nichols, Alexander R.L., Hong, Lu-Bing, Zhang, Yin-Hui, Zhang, Yan, Liu, Jian-Qiang, Xu, Yi-Gang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2017

Olivine-hosted melt inclusions within lava retain important information regarding the lava’s primary magma compositions and mantle sources. Thus, they can be used to infer the nature of the mantle sources of large igneous provinces, which is still not well known and of the subject of debate. We have...