Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Cold deep subduction recorded by remnants of a Paleoproterozoic carbonated slab

  • Cheng Xu,
  • Jindřich Kynický,
  • Wenlei Song,
  • Renbiao Tao,
  • Zeng Lü,
  • Yunxiu Li,
  • Yueheng Yang,
  • Miroslav Pohanka,
  • Michaela V. Galiova,
  • Lifei Zhang,
  • Yingwei Fei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05140-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The onset of modern-style plate tectonics remains under debate. Here, Xu et al. report a cold thermal-gradient recorded in an eclogite xenolith in Paleoproterozoic carbonatite from orogen, and propose that modern-style subduction has operated since at least the Paleoproterozoic.