Fig. 4: Continental lower crustal FeOT and SiO2 correlation. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Continental lower crustal FeOT and SiO2 correlation.

From: Mode of intracontinental mountain building controlled by lower crustal composition and mantle lithosphere depletion

Fig. 4: Continental lower crustal FeOT and SiO2 correlation.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

FeOT versus SiO2 in the continental granulite-facies (lower-crustal) rocks, where FeOT represents all Fe taken as FeO, derived from the database of rock compositions from Archean and post-Archean terrains39. The green line shows the linear best fit of the inverse correlation between FeOT and SiO2.

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