“…The oxygen isotopic compositions of the VVP bulk rock xenoliths range from 6.6 to 11.2‰ (Table 4). This δ 18 O range of variation is significantly higher than the normal mantle average (5.6 ± 0.2‰; Javoy, 1980), even in convergent margins (6.0 ± 0.4‰; Taylor, 1968Muehlenbachs and Clayton, 1972;Magaritz et al, 1978;Déruelle et al, 1983;Ito and Stern, 1985;Pineau et al, 1999), and exceeds that of the host basanites (7.0-9.7‰). High δ…”