01810nas a2200229   4500008004100000245010500041210006900146300001200215490000700227520110000234653002401334653001701358653001801375653002401393100002501417700002201442700001601464700001401480700001501494700001401509856005701523       2010                        eng d00aEnriched Grenvillian Lithospheric Mantle as a Consequence of Long-lived Subduction Beneath Laurentia0 aEnriched Grenvillian Lithospheric Mantle as a Consequence of Lon  a151-1540 v383 a<p>Geochemical and Nd isotopic data from mafic and newly discovered ultramafic rocks in the Adirondack Lowlands suggest widespread enrichment of the lithospheric mantle under the Grenville Province. Incompatible element abundances and previously published Hf T<sub>DM (zircon)</sub> (depleted mantle model age) and Nd T<sub>DM</sub> ages from rocks of the anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite suite in the Adirondack Highlands document similar enrichment in the lower crust and its strong influence on subsequent magmatic events throughout the Ontario-Quebec-Adirondack segment of the Grenville Province. Likely the consequence of long-lived (ca. 1.4–1.2 Ga) northwest-directed subduction along the southeast edge of Laurentia (previously proposed Andean margin), this enrichment is similar to that associated with the vast (&gt;240,000 km<sup>2</sup>) ultrapotassic province of the western Churchill Province. Enrichment of the lithospheric mantle beneath orogenic belts is a predictable and important differentiation process that has operated on Earth for at least the past 3 b.y.</p>
10aAdirondack Lowlands10aGeochemistry10ageochronology10alithospheric mantle1 aChiarenzelli, J., R.1 aLupulescu, M., V.1 aCousens, B.1 aThern, E.1 aCoffin, L.1 aRegan, S.  uhttp://geology.gsapubs.org/content/38/2/151.abstract