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The Composition and Evolution of Lithospheric Mantle: a Re-evaluation and its Tectonic Implications

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The lithospheric architecture of Africa: Seismic tomography, mantle petrology, and tectonic evolution

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The origin and evolution of Archean lithospheric mantle

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Stabilisation of Archaean lithospheric mantle: A ReOs isotope study of peridotite xenoliths from the Kaapvaal craton

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Mesozoic decratonization of the North China block

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The density structure of subcontinental lithosphere through time

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Central Andean Ore Deposits Linked to Evolving Shallow Subduction Systems and Thickening Crust

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Mechanism and timing of lithospheric modification and replacement beneath the eastern North China Craton: Peridotitic xenoliths from the 100 Ma Fuxin basalts and a regional synthesis

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Rejuvenation and erosion of the cratonic lithosphere

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The single largest oceanic plateau: Ontong Java–Manihiki–Hikurangi

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Carbonatite Melts and Electrical Conductivity in the Asthenosphere

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Distinct lateral variation of lithospheric thickness in the Northeastern North China Craton

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Integrated geophysical‐petrological modeling of the lithosphere and sublithospheric upper mantle: Methodology and applications

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The System MgO-Ai2O3-Si02: Solubility of Ai2O3 in Enstatite for Spinel and Garnet Peridotite Compositions

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The evolution of lithospheric mantle beneath the Kalahari Craton and its margins

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Garnet geotherms: Pressure‐temperature data from Cr‐pyrope garnet xenocrysts in volcanic rocks

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Layered Mantle Lithosphere in the Lac de Gras Area, Slave Craton: Composition, Structure and Origin

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Proceedings of 10th International Kimberlite Conference

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A xenolith-derived geotherm for southeastern australia and its geophysical implications

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Ultradeep (Greater Than 300 Kilometers), Ultramafic Upper Mantle Xenoliths

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Superdeep diamonds from the Juina area, Mato Grosso State, Brazil

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The Mantle Sample: Inclusions in Kimberlites and Other Volcanics

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Lithosphere mapping beneath the North American plate☆

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Lithosphere evolution beneath the Kaapvaal Craton: Re–Os systematics of sulfides in mantle-derived peridotites

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Ultramafic Xenoliths from Bullenmerri and Gnotuk Maars, Victoria, Australia: Petrology of a Sub-Continental Crust-Mantle Transition

Griffin, W. L., Wass, S. Y., & Hollis, J. D. (1984) · Journal of Petrology · doi:10.1093/petrology/25.1.53 · Cited by 216

The origin of kimberlite

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The composition and origin of sub-continental lithospheric mantle

Griffin, W. L., O'Reilly, S. Y., & Ryan, C. G. (1999) · Cited by 204

Kimberlites - II: THE MANTLE AND CRUST - MANTLE RELATIONSHIPS

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Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States

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The persistence of off-cratonic lithospheric mantle: Os isotopic systematics of variably metasomatised southeast Australian xenoliths

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Imaging global chemical and thermal heterogeneity in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle with garnets and xenoliths: Geophysical implications

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Mantle seismic structure beneath the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe Cratons

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The nature of the Cenozoic lithosphere at Nushan, eastern China

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Earth's oldest rocks

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Mantle formation and evolution, Slave Craton: constraints from HSE abundances and Re–Os isotope systematics of sulfide inclusions in mantle xenocrysts

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Cratonic lithospheric mantle: Is anything subducted?

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Mapping olivine composition in the lithospheric mantle

Gaul, O. (2000) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/s0012-821x(00)00243-0 · Cited by 154

Ni in chrome pyrope garnets: a new geothermometer

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Structure and Evolution of the Australian Continent

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Lower Mantle Mineral Associations Preserved in Diamonds

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The Ni-in-garnet geothermometer: calibration at natural abundances

Canil, D. (1999) · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology · doi:10.1007/s004100050535 · Cited by 127

4-D Lithosphere Mapping: methodology and examples

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Enrichment of upper mantle peridotite: petrological, trace element and isotopic evidence in xenoliths from SE China

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Ultradeep continental roots and their oceanic remnants: A solution to the geochemical “mantle reservoir” problem?

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Kimberlites Near Orroroo, South Australia

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Trace elements in garnets and chromites: Diamond formation in the Siberian lithosphere

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A translithospheric suture in the vanished 1-Ga lithospheric root of South India: Evidence from contrasting lithosphere sections in the Dharwar Craton

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Mineral inclusions and geochemical characteristics of microdiamonds from the DO27, A154, A21, A418, DO18, DD17 and Ranch Lake kimberlites at Lac de Gras, Slave Craton, Canada☆

Davies, R. M., Griffin, W. L., O'Reilly, S. Y., & Doyle, B. J. (2004) · Lithos · doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2004.04.016 · Cited by 109

Europe from the bottom up: A statistical examination of the central and northern European lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary from comparing seismological and electromagnetic observations

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Secular Variation in the Composition of Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle: Geophysical and Geodynamic Implications

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Kimberlites - I: Kimberlites and Related Rocks

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A refractory mantle protolith in younger continental crust, east-central China: Age and composition of zircon in the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure peridotite

Zheng, J., Griffin, W. L., O'Reilly, S. Y., Yang, J., & Zhang, R. (2006) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g22569.1 · Cited by 92

Diamonds from the deep: pipe DO-27, Slave craton, Canada

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Ultra-depleted, shallow cratonic mantle beneath West Greenland: dunitic xenoliths from Ubekendt Ejland

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Geotectonic controls of primary diamond deposits: implications for area selection

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Role of the Kerguelen Plume in generating the eastern Indian Ocean seafloor

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Xenoliths from kimberlite pipes of the Lac de Gras area, Slave Craton, Canada

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Osmium Isotopic Evidence for Ancient Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Kerguelen Islands, Southern Indian Ocean

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Ultra-high pressure garnet inclusions in Monastery diamonds: trace element abundance patterns and conditions of origin

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Inclusions in diamonds from the K14 and K10 kimberlites, Buffalo Hills, Alberta, Canada: diamond growth in a plume?

Davies, R. M., Griffin, W. L., O'Reilly, S. Y., & McCandless, T. E. (2004) · Lithos · doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2004.04.008 · Cited by 79

Thermal and compositional anomalies beneath the North American continent

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Geobarometry for Peridotites: Experiments in Simple and Natural Systems from 6 to 10 GPa

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Ghosts of lithospheres past: Imaging an evolving lithospheric mantle in southern Africa

Kobussen, A. F., Griffin, W. L., O'Reilly, S. Y., & Shee, S. R. (2008) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g24868a.1 · Cited by 73

Trace-element zonation in garnets from The Thumb: heating and melt infiltration below the Colorado Plateau

Smith, D. J., Griffin, W. L., Ryan, C. G., & Sie, S. H. (1991) · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology · doi:10.1007/bf00311185 · Cited by 73

Melting relations of model lherzolite in the system CaO‐MgO‐Al2O3‐SiO2 at 2.4–3.4 GPa and the generation of komatiites

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Thermal and compositional structure of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle: Derivation from shear wave seismic tomography

Deen, T., Griffin, W. L., Begg, G., O'Reilly, S. Y., Natapov, L. M., & Hronsky, J. M. A. (2006) · Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · doi:10.1029/2005gc001120 · Cited by 69

Trace-element zoning in mantle minerals: Metasomatism and thermal events in the upper mantle

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Melt inclusions from the deep Slave lithosphere: implications for the origin and evolution of mantle-derived carbonatite and kimberlite

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Lithosphere structure beneath the Phanerozoic intracratonic basins of North America

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Mantle Mush Compaction: a Key to Understand the Mechanisms of Concentration of Kimberlite Melts and Initiation of Swarms of Kimberlite Dykes

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Lithosphere formation in the central Slave Craton (Canada): plume subcretion or lithosphere accretion?

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Glasses in Mantle Xenoliths from Olmani, Tanzania

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Late Mesozoic-Eocene Mantle Replacement beneath the Eastern North China Craton: Evidence from the Paleozoic and Cenozoic Peridotite Xenoliths

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Spinel-facies peridotites from the Kaapvaal root

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