Neon isotopes constrain convection and volatile origin in the Earth's mantle

Chris J. Ballentine (), Bernard Marty, Barbara Sherwood Lollar and Martin Cassidy
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Chris J. Ballentine: University of Manchester
Bernard Marty: Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques
Barbara Sherwood Lollar: University of Toronto
Martin Cassidy: University of Houston

Nature, 2005, vol. 433, issue 7021, 33-38

Abstract: Abstract Identifying the origin of primordial volatiles in the Earth's mantle provides a critical test between models that advocate magma-ocean equilibration with an early massive solar-nebula atmosphere and those that require subduction of volatiles implanted in late accreting material. Here we show that neon isotopes in the convecting mantle, resolved in magmatic CO2 well gases, are consistent with a volatile source related to solar corpuscular irradiation of accreting material. This contrasts with recent results that indicated a solar-nebula origin for neon in mantle plume material, which is thought to be sampling the deep mantle. Neon isotope heterogeneity in different mantle sources suggests that models in which the plume source supplies the convecting mantle with its volatile inventory require revision. Although higher than accepted noble gas concentrations in the convecting mantle may reduce the need for a deep mantle volatile flux, any such flux must be dominated by the neon (and helium) isotopic signature of late accreting material.

Date: 2005
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