Earth’s earliest phaneritic ultramafic rocks 1: plate tectonic
mantle slices or crustal cumulates?
Jiawei Zuo1*, A. Alexander G.
Webb1*, Emily J. Chin2, Lukáš
Ackerman3, Jason Harvey4, Peter J.
Haproff5, Thomas Müller6, Qin
Wang7, Arthur H. Hickman8, Dominik
Sorger6, Anthony Ramírez-Salazar4,
1Department of Earth Sciences and Laboratory for Space
Research, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
2Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
3Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of
Sciences, Rozvojová 269, Prague 6, 16500, Czech Republic
4School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
5Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of
North Carolina Wilmington, North Carolina 28403, USA
6Geoscience Center, Department of Mineralogy,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
7State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research,
School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing
210046, China
8Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain
St., East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia.
*Corresponding authors: Jiawei Zuo
(jwzuo@connect.hku.hk) ,
Alexander Webb
(aagwebb@hku.hk)