Stephen F. Foley

Evidence from alkaline magmatism for fluorine- and bromine-enriched cratonic mantle roots

The base of cratonic lithospheric mantle (cratonic root) is a key volatile-rich reservoir (e.g., carbon and halogens), formed through long-term metasomatism by deep-derived incipient melts, whose reactivation has been proposed to drive climatic change over the course of Earth his...