Your efforts to keep yourself more reasonably alive, and by extension preventing Xenolith from losing it, are appreciated.
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Together we will bully Clive into better medical self-care so that she doesn't give Xenolith a heart attack. It's a public service because he is a benefit to all who have the fortune to befriend him. That's simply how it is.
I understand you. I did see your conversation with Xenolith, and I was curious. You two have a fine plan, it seems.
I’m surprised Xenolith isn’t mentoring you as he is for me. Unless you were already past that point.
This is more or less comparable to what it would take to bring a fragment of the slab up as a xenolith (which I've not heard of in the context of active, normal subduction*), which was the original question.
I’m not sure I understand the distinction…a long lived system isn’t restricted from bringing up a xenolith. If we are talking about a kimberlite or some other such mantle-connected vent, I could see what you mean.
Slower and it would react with the xenolith, but there's a lot of work done estimating basaltic magma ascent rates. I'll try to track a few down again later.
No xenoliths could survive long in the lower crust without interacting so much with the country rock that it'd no longer resemble it's source. They're *always* parts of erupted/shallowly emplaced basalts that cool fast enough to prevent significant reactions between the basalt and the xenolith.