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Geochemical evolution of rodingites during subduction: insights from Cerro del Almirez (southern Spain) (2020)
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Laborda-López, C., Marchesi, C., Sánchez-Vizcaíno, V. L., Gómez-Pugnaire, M. T., Dale, C. W., Jabaloy-Sánchez, A., …Garrido, C. J. (2020). Geochemical evolution of rodingites during subduction: insights from Cerro del Almirez (southern Spain). Lithos, 370-371, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105639

Metarodingites from Cerro del Almirez (Betic Cordillera, southern Spain) experienced multiple mineralogical and compositional changes during their evolution, from rodingitization on the seafloor to dehydration of the hosting subducted antigorite serp... Read More about Geochemical evolution of rodingites during subduction: insights from Cerro del Almirez (southern Spain).

Generation and modification of the mantle wedge and lithosphere beneath the West Bismarck Island Arc: melting, metasomatism and thermal history of peridotite xenoliths from Ritter Island (2017)
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Tollan, P., Dale, C., Hermann, J., Davidson, J., & Arculus, R. (2017). Generation and modification of the mantle wedge and lithosphere beneath the West Bismarck Island Arc: melting, metasomatism and thermal history of peridotite xenoliths from Ritter Island. Journal of Petrology, 58(8), 1475-1510. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egx062

Peridotite xenoliths dredged from the seafloor northwest of Ritter Island in the West Bismarck Island Arc offer a rare insight into the petrogenetic processes operating in the upper mantle wedge of an active oceanic subduction zone. Harzburgitic xeno... Read More about Generation and modification of the mantle wedge and lithosphere beneath the West Bismarck Island Arc: melting, metasomatism and thermal history of peridotite xenoliths from Ritter Island.

The behavior of iron and zinc stable isotopes accompanying the subduction of mafic oceanic crust: A case study from Western Alpine ophiolites (2017)
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Inglis, E. C., Debret, B., Burton, K. W., Millet, M., Pons, M., Dale, C. W., …Williams, H. M. (2017). The behavior of iron and zinc stable isotopes accompanying the subduction of mafic oceanic crust: A case study from Western Alpine ophiolites. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(7), 2562-2579. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gc006735

Arc lavas display elevated Fe3+/ΣFe ratios relative to MORB. One mechanism to explain this is the mobilization and transfer of oxidised or oxidising components from the subducting slab to the mantle wedge. Here we use iron and zinc isotopes, which ar... Read More about The behavior of iron and zinc stable isotopes accompanying the subduction of mafic oceanic crust: A case study from Western Alpine ophiolites.

Paragenesis of multiple platinum-group mineral populations in Shetland ophiolite chromitite: 3D X-ray tomography and in situ Os isotopes (2017)
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Prichard, H., Barnes, S. J., Dale, C., Godel, B., Fisher, P., & Nowell, G. (2017). Paragenesis of multiple platinum-group mineral populations in Shetland ophiolite chromitite: 3D X-ray tomography and in situ Os isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 216, 314-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.03.035

Chromitite from the Harold’s Grave locality in the mantle section of the Shetland ophiolite complex is extremely enriched in Ru, Os and Ir, at µg/g concentrations. High-resolution X-ray computed tomography on micro-cores from these chromitites was us... Read More about Paragenesis of multiple platinum-group mineral populations in Shetland ophiolite chromitite: 3D X-ray tomography and in situ Os isotopes.

High precision osmium stable isotope measurements by double spike MC-ICP-MS and N-TIMS (2017)
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Nanne, J., Millet, M., Burton, K., Dale, C., Nowell, G., & Williams, H. (2017). High precision osmium stable isotope measurements by double spike MC-ICP-MS and N-TIMS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 32(4), 749-765. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ja00406g

Osmium stable isotopes provide a new, potentially powerful tool with which to investigate a diverse range of geological processes including planetary formation, ore-genesis and weathering. In this paper, we present a new technique for high precision... Read More about High precision osmium stable isotope measurements by double spike MC-ICP-MS and N-TIMS.

Highly siderophile element and 182W evidence for a partial late veneer in the source of 3.8 Ga rocks from Isua, Greenland (2016)
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Dale, C., Kruijer, T., & Burton, K. (2017). Highly siderophile element and 182W evidence for a partial late veneer in the source of 3.8 Ga rocks from Isua, Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 458, 394-404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.001

The higher-than-expected concentrations of highly siderophile elements (HSE) in Earth's mantle most likely indicate that Earth received a small amount of late accreted mass after core formation had ceased, known as the ‘late veneer’. Small 182W exces... Read More about Highly siderophile element and 182W evidence for a partial late veneer in the source of 3.8 Ga rocks from Isua, Greenland.

Osmium isotope compositions of detrital Os-rich alloys from the Rhine River provide evidence for a global late Mesoproterozoic mantle depletion event (2016)
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Dijkstra, A., Dale, C., Oberthür, T., Nowell, G., & Pearson, D. (2016). Osmium isotope compositions of detrital Os-rich alloys from the Rhine River provide evidence for a global late Mesoproterozoic mantle depletion event. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 452, 115-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.047

We report osmium isotopic compositions for 297 mantle-derived detrital Ru–Os–Ir alloy grains found in gold and platinum-group mineral bearing placers of the Rhine River. These alloys were likely formed as a result of high degree melting in the convec... Read More about Osmium isotope compositions of detrital Os-rich alloys from the Rhine River provide evidence for a global late Mesoproterozoic mantle depletion event.

Titanium stable isotope investigation of magmatic processes on the Earth and Moon (2016)
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Millet, M., Dauphas, N., Greberb, N., Burton, K., Dale, C., Debret, B., …Williams, H. (2016). Titanium stable isotope investigation of magmatic processes on the Earth and Moon. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 449, 197-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.039

We present titanium stable isotope measurements of terrestrial magmatic samples and lunar mare basalts with the aims of constraining the composition of the lunar and terrestrial mantles and evaluating the potential of Ti stable isotopes for understan... Read More about Titanium stable isotope investigation of magmatic processes on the Earth and Moon.

The influence of melt flux and crustal processing on Re-Os isotope systematics of ocean island basalts: constraints from Galápagos (2016)
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Gibson, S., Dale, C., Geist, D., Day, J., Brügmann, G., & Harpp, K. (2016). The influence of melt flux and crustal processing on Re-Os isotope systematics of ocean island basalts: constraints from Galápagos. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 449, 345-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.021

Galápagos basalts with the most radiogenic 187Os/188Os (up to 0.1875) typically have moderate MgO (7–9 wt.%) and low Os (<50 pg g−1) but have contrastingly unenriched Sr, Nd and Pb isotope signatures. We interpret this decoupling of chalcophile an... Read More about The influence of melt flux and crustal processing on Re-Os isotope systematics of ocean island basalts: constraints from Galápagos.

Re-Pt-Os Isotopic and Highly Siderophile Element Behavior in Oceanic and Continental Mantle Tectonites (2015)
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Becker, H., & Dale, C. (2016). Re-Pt-Os Isotopic and Highly Siderophile Element Behavior in Oceanic and Continental Mantle Tectonites. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 81(1), 369-440. https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2016.81.7

Tectonically emplaced mantle rocks, such as ophiolites, abyssal peridotites, and orogenic peridotite massifs, provide a principle constraint on the composition of and processes in the Earth’s upper mantle (Bodinier and Godard 2003). In the past, thes... Read More about Re-Pt-Os Isotopic and Highly Siderophile Element Behavior in Oceanic and Continental Mantle Tectonites.

Community differentiation and kinship among Europe's first farmers (2012)
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Bentley, R., Bickle, P., Fibiger, L., Nowell, G., Dale, C., Hedges, R., …Whittle, A. (2012). Community differentiation and kinship among Europe's first farmers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(24), 9326-9330. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1113710109

Community differentiation is a fundamental topic of the social sciences, and its prehistoric origins in Europe are typically assumed to lie among the complex, densely populated societies that developed millennia after their Neolithic predecessors. He... Read More about Community differentiation and kinship among Europe's first farmers.

Late accretion on the earliest planetesimals revealed by the highly siderophile elements (2012)
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Dale, C., Burton, K., Greenwood, R., Gannoun, A., Wade, J., Wood, B., & Pearson, D. (2012). Late accretion on the earliest planetesimals revealed by the highly siderophile elements. Science, 336(6077), 72-75. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1214967

Late accretion of primitive chondritic material to Earth, the Moon, and Mars, after core formation had ceased, can account for the absolute and relative abundances of highly siderophile elements (HSEs) in their silicate mantles. Here we show that sma... Read More about Late accretion on the earliest planetesimals revealed by the highly siderophile elements.

Inter-element fractionation of highly siderophile elements in the Tonga Arc due to flux melting of a depleted source (2012)
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Dale, C., Macpherson, C., Pearson, D., Hammond, S., & Arculus, R. (2012). Inter-element fractionation of highly siderophile elements in the Tonga Arc due to flux melting of a depleted source. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 89, 202-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.03.025

Highly siderophile element concentrations (HSEs: Os, Ir, Ru, Pt, Pd, and Re) have been determined for a suite of fresh, submarine mafic lavas from the northern Tonga Arc front and the nascent backarc Fonualei Spreading Centre (FSC). Prior melt deplet... Read More about Inter-element fractionation of highly siderophile elements in the Tonga Arc due to flux melting of a depleted source.

Osmium mass balance in peridotite and the effects of mantle-derived sulphides on basalt petrogenesis (2011)
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Harvey, J., Dale, C., Gannoun, A., & Burton, K. (2011). Osmium mass balance in peridotite and the effects of mantle-derived sulphides on basalt petrogenesis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(19), 5574-5596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.07.001

Analyses of enriched mantle (EM)-basalts, using lithophile element-based isotope systems, have long provided evidence for discrete mantle reservoirs with variable composition. Upon partial melting, the mantle reservoir imparts its isotopic fingerprin... Read More about Osmium mass balance in peridotite and the effects of mantle-derived sulphides on basalt petrogenesis.

Ancient Os isotope signatures from the Ontong Java Plateau lithosphere: Tracing lithospheric accretion history (2011)
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Ishikawa, A., Pearson, D., & Dale, C. (2011). Ancient Os isotope signatures from the Ontong Java Plateau lithosphere: Tracing lithospheric accretion history. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 301(1-2), 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.034

In order to better understand the nature and formation of oceanic lithosphere beneath the Early Cretaceous Ontong Java Plateau, Re–Os isotopes have been analysed in a suite of peridotite xenoliths from Malaita, Solomon Islands. Geological, thermobaro... Read More about Ancient Os isotope signatures from the Ontong Java Plateau lithosphere: Tracing lithospheric accretion history.

Highly siderophile element behaviour accompanying subduction of oceanic crust: Whole rock and mineral-scale insights from a high-pressure terrain (2009)
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Dale, C., Burton, K., Pearson, D., Gannoun, A., Alard, O., Argles, T., & Parkinson, I. (2009). Highly siderophile element behaviour accompanying subduction of oceanic crust: Whole rock and mineral-scale insights from a high-pressure terrain. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(5), 1394-1416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2008.11.036

Highly siderophile element concentrations (HSE: Re and platinum-group elements (PGE)) are presented for gabbros, gabbroic eclogites and basaltic eclogites from the high-pressure Zermatt–Saas ophiolite terrain, Switzerland. Rhenium and PGE (Os, Ir, Ru... Read More about Highly siderophile element behaviour accompanying subduction of oceanic crust: Whole rock and mineral-scale insights from a high-pressure terrain.

Osmium isotopes in Baffin Island and West Greenland picrites: Implications for the 187Os/188Os composition of the convecting mantle and the nature of high 3He/4He mantle (2009)
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Dale, C., Pearson, D., Starkey, N., Stuart, F., Ellam, R., Larsen, L., …Macpherson, C. (2009). Osmium isotopes in Baffin Island and West Greenland picrites: Implications for the 187Os/188Os composition of the convecting mantle and the nature of high 3He/4He mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 278(3-4), 267-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.014

Identifying the Os isotope composition of the prevalent, largely peridotitic, convecting mantle places important constraints on the Earth's accretion, differentiation and evolution and also has implications for the interpretation of Re-depletion ages... Read More about Osmium isotopes in Baffin Island and West Greenland picrites: Implications for the 187Os/188Os composition of the convecting mantle and the nature of high 3He/4He mantle.