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Título: | Electrical conductivity of continental lithospheric mantle from integrated geophysical and petrological modeling: Application to the Kaapvaal Craton and Rehoboth Terrane, southern Africa |
Autor: | Fullea, J. CSIC ORCID; Muller, M. R.; Jones, A. G. | Palabras clave: | Cratons electrical conductivity lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary modeling water content xenoliths Thermodynamics Physical Properties of Rocks Tectonophysics |
Fecha de publicación: | 11-oct-2011 | Editor: | American Geophysical Union | Citación: | Fullea, J., M. R. Muller, and A. G. Jones (2011), Electrical conductivity of continental lithospheric mantle from integrated geophysical and petrological modeling: Application to the Kaapvaal Craton and Rehoboth Terrane, southern Africa, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B10202, doi:10.1029/2011JB008544. | Resumen: | The electrical conductivity of mantle minerals is highly sensitive to parameters that characterize the structure and state of the lithosphere and sublithospheric mantle, and mapping its lateral and vertical variations gives insights into formation and deformation processes. We review state-of-the-art conductivity models based on laboratory studies for the most relevant upper mantle minerals and define a bulk conductivity model for the upper mantle that accounts for temperature, pressure, and compositional variations. The bulk electrical conductivity model has been integrated into the software package LitMod, which allows for petrological and geophysical modeling of the lithosphere and sublithospheric upper mantle within an internally consistent thermodynamic-geophysical framework. We apply our methodology to model the upper mantle thermal structure and hydrous state of the western block of the Archean Kaapvaal Craton and the Proterozoic Rehoboth Terrane, in southern Africa, integrating different geophysical and petrological observables: namely, elevation, surface heat flow, and magnetotelluric and xenolith data. We find that to fit the measured magnetotelluric responses in both the Kaapvaal and Rehoboth terranes, the uppermost depleted part of the lithosphere has to be wetter than the lowermost melt-metasomatized and refertilized lithospheric mantle. We estimate present-day thermal lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) depths of 230–260 and 150 ± 10 km for the western block of the Kaapvaal and Rehoboth terranes, respectively. For the Kaapvaal, the depth of the present-day thermal LAB differs significantly from the chemical LAB, as defined by the base of a depleted mantle, which might represent an upper level of melt percolation and accumulation within the lower lithosphere. | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JB008544 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/61390 | DOI: | 10.1029/2011JB008544 |
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