Professor Jeroen Van Hunen's Outputs (4)

Madagascar’s escape from Africa: A high-resolution plate reconstruction for the Western Somali Basin and implications for supercontinent dispersal (2016)
Journal Article
Phethean, J. J., Kalnins, L. M., van Hunen, J., Biffi, P. G., Davies, R. J., & McCaffrey, K. J. (2016). Madagascar’s escape from Africa: A high-resolution plate reconstruction for the Western Somali Basin and implications for supercontinent dispersal. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(12), 5036-5055. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gc006624

Accurate reconstructions of the dispersal of supercontinent blocks are essential for testing continental breakup models. Here, we provide a new plate tectonic reconstruction of the opening of the Western Somali Basin during the breakup of East and We... Read More about Madagascar’s escape from Africa: A high-resolution plate reconstruction for the Western Somali Basin and implications for supercontinent dispersal.

Making Archean cratonic roots by lateral compression: A two-stage thickening and stabilization model (2016)
Journal Article
Wang, H., van Hunen, J., & Pearson, D. G. (2018). Making Archean cratonic roots by lateral compression: A two-stage thickening and stabilization model. Tectonophysics, 746, 562-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.12.001

Archean tectonics was capable of producing virtually indestructible cratonic mantle lithosphere, but the dominant mechanism of this process remains a topic of considerable discussion. Recent geophysical and petrological studies have refuelled the deb... Read More about Making Archean cratonic roots by lateral compression: A two-stage thickening and stabilization model.

Relamination of mafic subducting crust throughout Earth’s history (2016)
Journal Article
Maunder, B., van Hunen, J., Magni, M., & Bouilhol, P. (2016). Relamination of mafic subducting crust throughout Earth’s history. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 449, 206-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.042

Earth has likely cooled by several hundred degrees over its history, which has probably affected subduction dynamics and associated magmatism. Today, the process of compositional buoyancy driven upwelling, and subsequent underplating, of subducted ma... Read More about Relamination of mafic subducting crust throughout Earth’s history.

A great thermal divergence in the mantle beginning 2.5 Ga: Geochemical constraints from greenstone basalts and komatiites (2016)
Journal Article
Condie, K., Aster, R., & van Hunen, J. (2016). A great thermal divergence in the mantle beginning 2.5 Ga: Geochemical constraints from greenstone basalts and komatiites. Geoscience Frontiers, 7(4), 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2016.01.006

Greenstone basalts and komatiites provide a means to track both mantle composition and magma generation temperature with time. Four types of mantle are characterized from incompatible element distributions in basalts and komatiites: depleted, hydrate... Read More about A great thermal divergence in the mantle beginning 2.5 Ga: Geochemical constraints from greenstone basalts and komatiites.