Lithospheric composition and thermal structure of the Arabian Shield in Jordan

Tracking the thermal properties of the lower continental crust: Measured versus calculated thermal conductivity of high-grade metamorphic rocks (Southern Granulite Province, India)

“…Average value of pyroxene and garnet-bearing granulites from the Saxon Granulite Massif (Germany) is 2.6 W m 1 K 1 (Seipold, 1992). Slightly larger values of 2.83.0 W m 1 K 1 were determined for mafic granulites from the Arabian Shield in Jordan (Förster et al, 2010). Calculation of bulk TC (using λHM and mean TCs for minerals) for a suite of partially reequilibrated, weakly porous (porosity: 38 %) and microcrack-penetrated mafic granulites from the northern Arabian Shield in Israel studied by Schütz et al (2014) …”

Heterogeneous mantle sources feeding the volcanic activity of Mt. Karacadağ (SE Turkey)

“…2). Also shown is the field of the Arabia plate lower crustal xenoliths (McGuire and Stern, 1993;Nasir and Safarjalani, 2000;Al-Mishwat and Nasir, 2004;Al-Safarjalani et al, 2009;Forster et al, 2010;Krienitz and Haase, 2011). Symbols as in Fig.…”

“…In the absence of geochemical data for local lower crustal rocks, we have collected literature data on lower crustal xenoliths associated with Cenozoic within-plate magmas from the Arabian plates (Nasir, 1992(Nasir, , 1995McGuire and Stern, 1993;Nasir and Safarjalani, 2000;Al-Mishwat and Nasir, 2004;Al-Safarjalani et al, 2009;Forster et al, 2010;Stern and Johnson, 2010;Krienitz and Haase, 2011) to infer the possible consequences of interaction of mantle melts with Arabian-type lower crust. From a major element point of view, the Arabia lower crust xenoliths share many similarities with the whole-rock composition of the Karacadag lavas and those of the neighbouring volcanic districts (Fig.…”

Surface heat flow and lithosphere thermal structure of the Rhenohercynian Zone in the greater Luxembourg region

“…Data for the lower crust and lithospheric mantle were taken from different literature sources reporting consistently low H values (Förster and Förster, 2000;Förster et al, 2010;Furlong and Chapman, 2013;Hasterok and Chapman, 2011). The uncertainty range of q s determined at the Mersch borehole (75  7 mW m -2 ) did not permit to establish the LAB depth below Luxembourg with statistical significance (see Fig.…”