THE MAIN EVOLUTION PATTERN OF PHANEROZOIC MANTLE IN THE EASTERN CHINA: THE “MUSHROOM CLOUD” MODEL
THE MAIN EVOLUTION PATTERN OF PHANEROZOIC MANTLE IN THE EASTERN CHINA: THE “MUSHROOM CLOUD” MODEL
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Lu Feng
According to the discrimination of three mantle domains, geophysical data and the research on petrology of mantle in Eastern China, the evolution pattern of Phanerozoic mantle is proposed in this paper The old lithospheric mantle is mainly composed of refractory low density peridotites, while the buoyancy relative to the asthenosphere and the stability of old mantle must also be taking into account Therefore the old SCLM (sub continental lithosphere mantle)can not be delaminated by gravitation processes In Late Cretaceous—Cenozoic the composition of SCLM is fertile in lherzolite that is different evidently from the old SCLM These hot mantle materials uplifted as several mushroom cloud and their boundaries with old mantle relicts were steeply inclined This is the main evolution pattern of mantle in the eastern China In Mesozoic, the geotherm of mantle was raised in most regions of the eastern China and was hotter than that of the old lithospheric mantle and than that of Cenozoic one The thickness of the crust in Mesozoic may be thicker than that in the older and Cenozoic The low velocity/low resistance materials in the old mantle were fluids and melts with low meltability occurred as veins and/or lenses Those materials in Cenozoic mantle were hot asthenospheric and presented as several mushrooms and those in Mesozoic may be abounded in basaltic magmas, as forming mushroom advective stratosphere In Mesozoic, the most important interaction occurred between the crust and the mantle, whereas in the older and Cenozoic it did between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere