Multistage evolution of Australian subcontinental mantle: Re-Os isotopic constraints from Victorian mantle xenoliths

Abstract

Geochemical and Re-Os isotopic data for refractory spinel peridotite xenoliths from the Newer Volcanics Province of western Victoria demonstrate that parts of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) beneath southeastern Australia underwent melt depletion during the Late Proterozoic as well as the early Paleozoic. Late Proterozoic Re-Os model ages (as old as 900 Ma) for refractory harzburgites are significantly older than the exposed Cambrian crust. In addition, our Re-Os melt-depletion mantle model ages (TMA) are consistent with Sm-Nd depleted-mantle model ages (TDM) and older zircon U-Pb ages for I-type granites from southeastern Australia, suggesting that this region is underlain by ..