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Hydrous, silica-rich melts in the sub-arc mantle and their relationship with erupted arc lavas

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Hydrous, silica-rich melts migrating through the mantle are preserved as glass inclusions in mantle minerals in xenoliths from Philippine arc lavas. These melts, with chemistries that indicate an origin by very low degrees of melting of the subducted ocean crust, have altered their host peridotites, yielding a metasomatized mantle. This 'fertilized' mantle is the source region of the arc magmas, which share continuous chemical trends with the melt inclusions, reflecting mixing and/or varying degrees of melting. These observations provide direct evidence for the importance of slab–mantle interactions in the genesis of island-arc magmas.

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  2. Laboratoire Pierre Süe, CEN Saclay, 91191, France

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  3. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543, USA

    N. Shimizu

  4. Laboratoire de Pétrologie, URA 1278, Université de Bretagne occidentale, 29287, Brest, France

    R. C. Maury

  5. Max-Planck-lnstitut für Chemie, Postfach 3060, 55020, Mainz, Germany

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Schiano, P., Clocchiatti, R., Shimizu, N. et al. Hydrous, silica-rich melts in the sub-arc mantle and their relationship with erupted arc lavas. Nature 377, 595–600 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/377595a0

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