“…11) (e.g. Zhao et al, 2007a;Zhao and Ohtani, 2009;Zhu et al, 2010Zhu et al, , 2012aXu et al, 2011a,b;Li et al, 2012a;Guo et al, 2013;Tang et al, 2013;Goldfarb and Santosh, 2014). Recent seismic topographic imaging has revealed the stagnant subducting Pacific slab in the mantle transition zone Table 6; Huang and Wu, 1990;Ni et al, 2012;Zhang and Li, 1998); gneiss and quartz schists of the Taihua Group (Huang and Wu, 1990); Xiong'er Group (He et al, 2010;Peng et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2010); mantle-derived basaltic magma (B): Sr = 150 ppm, I Sr = 0.704, Nd = 15 ppm, e Nd = 8 (Jahn et al, 1999); Cretaceous granite from the southern margin of the NCC values are from Gao et al (2010), Guo et al (2009) andZhao et al (2012); (b) the Taihua Group metamorphic basement rocks: (Diwu et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2009;Xu et al, 2009a); the Xiong'er Group: .…”