The discovery of ultrahigh pressure (UHP) minerals in orogenic belts has revolutionized our understanding subduction and the return flow previously deeply subducted material to Earth's surface as part cycling interaction crustal mantle systems. One class UHP is found inclusions peridotite-hosted podiform-chromite systems, within Phanerozoic ophiolites ophiolitic mélanges. Such have opened a win...

Investigations of the Mantle Transition Zone (MTZ; 410-660 km deep) by deformation experiments and geophysical methods suggest that the MTZ has distinct rheological properties, but their exact cause is still unclear due to the lack of natural samples. Here we present the first direct evidence for crystal-plastic deformation by dislocation creep in the MTZ using a chromitite from the Luobusa per...

Chromite is widely distributed in the east and southeast of Afghanistan, especially in Logar Province. Chromite mineralization is podiform-type and is hosted in the stratigraphically lowest ultramafic rocks of the Logar Ophiolite Complex. This ophiolite complex represents a remnant of an early Cretaceous oceanic crust that was thrusted over a late Permian to Mid-Jurassic platform-type sequence ...

Abstract There is abundant evidence for significant H2O in evolved melts from the platinum-rich UG2 chromitite and Merensky Reef of Bushveld Complex (South Africa), but there no consensus about source H2O. We report triple-oxygen hydrogen isotope ratios interstitial, late-magmatic phlogopite three localities layer. The yielded δD values −43 to −23, which >30 higher than previously known ...