Exploring chemical variations and thermal history of the lower crust and upper mantle within the Mariana Trench: Signatures of subduction?
Emily Etheridge1, Nicholas J Dygert2, Molly Anderson3, Anah Bogdan2, Emily J Chin4, Yumiko Harigane5, George Denny2, Véronique Le Roux6, Matt Leybourne7, Yasuhiko Ohara8, Tomoyo Okumura9, Ignacio Pujana10, George Segee-Wright11 and Robert J Stern12, (1)University of Tennessee, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, (4)UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, GRD, La Jolla, United States, (5)Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan, (6)Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Nancy, France, (7)Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada, (8)Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, (9)Kochi University, Kochi, Japan, (10)University of Texas at Dallas, Dept. of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences, Richardson, United States, (11)CPRG U. Lorraine, Lorraine, France, (12)University of Texas at Dallas, Geosciences, Richardson, TX, United States