Calcium isotopic fractionation during plate subduction: Constraints from back-arc basin basalts

Subduction related metasomatism has been proposed to be one of the most important processes that may cause Ca isotopic heterogeneities in the mantle. Back-arc basin basalts (BABBs) affected by different contributions of subducted materials have various geochemical compositions ranging from MORB-like to arc-like, so that they are ideal media to investigate the behavior of Ca isotopes during plate subduction. Here we report Ca isotopic...