Cartoon showing the ice cream-frying model for the rapid
processes of both subduction of the cold continental
lithosphere into and its exhumation from mantle depths,
with short residence within the hot mantle.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Cartoon showing rift magmatism in the
northern margin of the Yangtze Block at middle
Neoproterozoic that results in melting of continental
glacier and triggers meteoric-hydrothermal
circulations.
Figure 3:
Figure 3: Cartoon showing the geodynamic model of water loss by
decompression exsolution of structural hydroxyl and molecular
water from minerals during exhumation of deeply subducted
continental crust.