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Red Butte Mining District, Box Elder County, Utah, USA : The Red Butte mining area is located in the central Grouse Creek Mountains of northwestern Box Elder County. Red Butte is a newly designated district which was previously included in the Rosebud ...

Jian Xu; Xiao-Ping Xia; Qiang Wang; Christopher J. Spencer; Bin He ... Abstract: The mechanisms and processes by which subducted slab interacted with mantle plume remain controversial, as direct observation of such interaction is difficult to impossible. Compositional heterogeneity of large igneous provinces (LIPs) additionally makes plume-slab interaction hard to detect. Oxygen isotopes are sensitive enough to trace the source of magmas. Here we provide evidence for plume-slab interaction main...