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Platinum Group Element (PGE) Geochemistry to Understand the Chemical Evolution of the Earth's Mantle
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Platinum group elements (PGE: Os, Ir, Ru, Rh, Pt, Pd) are important geochemical and cosmochemical tracers. Depending on physical and chemical behaviour the PGEs are divided into two subgroups: IPGE (Ir, Os, Ru) and PPGE (Pd, Pt, Rh). Platinum group elements show strong siderophile and chalcophile affinity. Base metal sulfides control the PGE budget of the Earth's mantle. Mantle xenoliths contain two types of sulfide populations: (1) enclosed within silicate minerals, and (2) interstitial to the silicate minerals. In terms of PGE characters the included variety shows IPGE enriched patterns - similar to the melt-depleted mantle harzburgite, whereas the interstitial variety shows PPGE enriched patterns - resembling the fractionated PGE patterns of the basalt. These PGE characters of the mantle sulfides have been interpreted to be representative of multi-stages melting process of the mantle that helped to shape the chemical evolution of the Earth.
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Mantle Xenoliths, Base Metal Sulfides, Platinum Group Element (PGE), Os Isotope, Mantle Heterogeneity.
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